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PIERSON & SURD AM 
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1909 



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TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER, 

EDWARD WILLIAM vSURDAM, 

Who endured the hardships and afflictions of 
life with patience and Christian fortitude ; 
whose character was without defect and whose 
example was always worthy of imitation, this 
little volume is affectionately dedicated. 

C. E. S. 



This Family History has been prepared with 
the following objects in view : 

1. To increase a knowledge of and veneration 
for our Dutch ancestors, than whom no nobler 
or truer people have ever lived. 

2. To encourage and perpetuate the interest 
in and affectionate regard for each other which 
now exists among us. 

3. That those who bear the family name, or 
in whose veins courses the blood of a common 
ancestry, and die leaving no posterity, shall not 
be so soon forgotten. 



CONTENTS 



Fage 

Our Dutch Ancestors . _ - . i 

TEUNIS PlETKRSZ AND HiS FAMILY - - I3 

Or<D Records and Inscriptions - - 23 

Famii^y Traditions . . . - 37 

Lawrence and Samuel Surdam - - 43 

Descendants of Lawrence Surdaisi - 48 

Peter Surdam - - - - 48 

Andrew Surdam - - - - 60 

Tunis Surdam - - - - - 60 

Descendants of Tunis Surdam - - 62 

Peter Surdam - - - - 62 

Eleanor Surdam - - - - 64 

Christina Surdam Harrison - - 64 

Hannah Surdam [Russell ? ] - - 64 

Lydia Surdam Keyes - - - 64 

Jane Surdam Perry . . . 66 

Daniel Surdam - - - - 76 

Eliza Surdam Akins - - - 87 

JERUSHA Surdam Wattles - - 98 

Jane Dutcher Surdam - 113 

Edward William Surdam - - 115 

Lettv Maria Surdam Johnson - 134 

Martha Emily Surdam Freeman - 144 

Daniel Orville Surdam - - 153 

Charles Orson Surdam - - - 156 

Sarah Surdam Fitch - - - 159 

LucETTA Fitch - - - - 160 

Oramel Fitch - - - - 160 

Amanda F'itch WheaTon - - - 161 

Jane Fitch - - - - 161 

Adoniram Fitch - - - - 166 

John Fitch _ . _ . 167 

Sarah Eliza Fitch Clark - - 171 

Lydia Cornelia Fitch Clark 173 

Reunions - - - - - - 176 

Errors and Delayed Information - 210 

Genealogical Record - - - - 212 



Happy the man whose wish and care 

A few paternal acres bound, 
Content to breathe his native air 
On his own ground. 

Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, 

Whose flocks supply him with attire ; 
W^hose trees in summer yield him shade, 
In winter fire. 

Bless'd who can unconcernedly find 

Hours, days and years glide soft away, 
In health of body, peace of mind 
Ouiet by day ; 

Sound sleep by night ; study and ease, 
Together mixed ; sweet recreation ; 
And innocence, which most does please 
W'ith meditation. 

POPK. 




Her Majesty Wilhelmina 
Queen of the Netherlands 



OUR DUTCH ANCESTORS 



A person who feels no interest in the geneal- 
ogy of his people and who does not know or care 
who his grandparents were, where they came 
from and how they lived, is not worthy of a no- 
ble ancestry ; and any person who has Dutch 
blood in his veins and does not desire to trace his 
lineage back to Nederland, to the province of 
Holland, to some specific place in Holland, and 
to some particular family, however humble, who 
lived in that place, is not worthy to be called a 
Dutchman 

Many people have taken too seriously Wash- 
ington Irving' s humorous " Knickerbocker's 
History of New York," and believe that the 
Dutch are a fat-witted race who cannot be and 
never have been roused from their lethargy to 
strenuous activity of mind or body. It is true 
that for the past two hundred and fifty years of 
peace and quiet, and without the stimulating ef- 
fects of opposition and contention, the Nederland 
in some respects has stood still while other coun- 



2 OUR DUTCH ANCESTORS 

tries, profiting by her former example, influence 
and assistance have gone forward ; but no other 
nation has struggled so hard for good homes and 
for civil and religious liberty, and done so much 
for herself and for others as ' ' Brave I^ittle Hol- 
land." 

Chambers' Encyclopaedia says : 

Nothing is known regarding the original inhab- 
itants of the Netherlands ; but about a centurj' and a 
half before our era the people known as the Batavia 
(who probably were our ancestors) came out of Hes- 
se, where they were living in hostility with their 
neighbors, and settled down between the Rhine and 
the Waal. At this time the Frisians occupied the coun- 
try north of the Rhine to the Elbe. The Batavians and 
the Frisians differed little in appearance, manner of 
life, and religion. They clothed themselves with 
skins, lived by hunting, fishing, and pasturing cat- 
tle, possessing horses, cows and sheep ; were faith- 
ful, open-hearted, chaste and hospitable. The songs 
of the bards composed their literature and history. 
Warlike and brave, they selected their leader for his 
courage and prowess, and were armed with the bow 
and a short spear. They worshiped the sun and 
moon, and held their meetings in consecrated woods. 

When "Rome ruled the vi^orld " the Fris- 
ians agreed to pay a tribute of ox hides and 
horns, but continued restless and rebellious. The 
Batavians became allies of Rome, paying no trib- 
ute but supplying a volunteer contingent, chiefly 
of cavalry, which decided the battle of Pharsalia 



OUR DUTCH ANCESTORS 3 

in favor of Caesar, and formed a gallant band of 
the Roman armies in all parts of the Empire. 

In A. D. 15 the Germans under Hermann 
drove the Roman army from Germany. Griffis 
says : 

This was one of the greatest of the decisive bat- 
tles of the world, for it settled the future of northern 
Europe ; neither emperor nor pope was likely there- 
after to hold the Germans. 

This victory made possible the Reformation, the 
English Commonwealth and the American Union. 

No Roman arm}' ever ag^ain penetrated from 
the Rhine into Germany ; but for a long time a 
peaceful Roman domination succeeded. 

In the third centur}^ the Franks and the Al- 
lemanni,with the Roman Catholic form of Chris- 
tianity, began to extend their influence and au- 
thority, and in the fifth century the legions were 
withdrawn and Roman dominion passed away. 
By the year 800 Papal authorit}^ was practically 
supreme ; the people, however, lived in peace 
and generall}^ made their own laws, but paid 
tribute to the Franks, Burgundians, Austrians 
and Spaniards until the Dutch rebellion in the 
sixteenth century. 

The thousands of Dutch people who joined 
the Crusaders in 1096 to 1296 brought back with 
them new ideas of civilization, art, education 
and commerce, and they developed and improved 



4 OUR DUTCH ANCESTORS 

upon them to such an extent that at this time of 
the rebellion, Bancroft says: 

The repubUc of the United Netherlands was by 
its origin and its nature commercial. The device on 
an early Dutch coin was a ship laboring on the bil- 
lows without an oar or a sail. The rendezvous of its 
martyrs had been the sea. The most of its patriot 
emigrants had been on shipboard, and they had hunt- 
ed their enemy as the whaleships pursue their 
game in every corner of the ocean. The two lead- 
ing members of the confederacy from their situation 
could seek subsistence only on the water. Holland 
is but a peninsula, intersected by navigable rivers, 
protruding itself into the sea. Crowded with a dense 
population on a soil saved from the deep by embank- 
ments and kept dry only with pumps driven by wind- 
mills, its homes were rather in the water than on 
land. 

And Zealand is composed of islands. Its inhab- 
itants were nearly all fishermen . its villages were as 
nests of sea towl on the margin of the ocean. In 
both provinces every house was by nature a nursery 
of sailors ; the sport of children was among the 
breakers ; their bojish pastimes in boats ; and if 
their first excursions were but voyages to some 
neighboring port, they soon braved the dangers of 
every sea. 

The States advanced to sudden opulence. Be- 
fore the insurrection they could with difficulty keep 
their embankments in repair ; and now they were 
able to support large fleets and armies. Their com- 
merce gathered in their harbors the fruits of the wide 
world. Producing almost no grain of any kind, Hoi- 



OUR DUTCH ANCESTORS 5 

land had the best equipped granary of Europe ; with- 
out fields of flax, it swarmed with weavers of linen ; 
destitute of flocks, it became the center of all woolen 
manufactures ; and provinces which had not a forest 
built more ships than all Europe besides. They con- 
nected hemispheres. Their enterprising mariners 
displayed the flag of the republic from Southern Af- 
rica to the Arctic Circle. The ships of the Dutch, 
said Sir Walter Raleigh, outnumbered those of En- 
gland and ten other kingdoms. To the Italian Car- 
dinal the number seemed infinite. Amsterdam was 
the center of the commerce of Europe. The sea not 
only bathed its walls but flowed through its streets, 
and its merchantmen lay so crowded together that 
the beholder from the ramparts could not look 
through the thick forest of masts and yards. War 
for liberty became unexpectedly a well-spring of op- 
ulence ; Holland plundered the commerce of Spain 
by its maritime force, and supplanted its rivals in 
the gainful traffic with the Indies. Lisbon and Ant- 
werp were despoiled ; Amsterdam, the depot of the 
merchandise of Europe and of the East, was become 
beyond dispute the first commercial city of the 
world ; the Tyre of modern times ; the Venice of the 
North ; the queen of all the seas. 

During those years of prosperity the devel- 
opment of education and general intelligence en- 
gendered a spirit of independence which resulted 
in the Reformation, the Inquisition, and the 
bloody struggle of eighty years for civil and reli- 
gious liberty against Spain and the Roman Cath- 
olic Church which ended when Spain was at last 



6 OUR DUTCH ANCESTORS 

exhausted, and a treaty of peace was solemnly 
concluded June 5th, 1648, exactly eighty years 
from the day that Egremont and Hoorn were ex- 
ecuted. Spain had buried three hundred and 
fifty thousand of her sons and allies in the oozy 
Netherlands, and had spent untold millions of 
money. She had nearly ruined herself financially 
in trying to uproot liberty. In seeking to wring 
the neck of heresy, she had broken her own 
back. Henceforth, from the rank of the first 
power in Europe, she sank to the level of a fourth- 
rate country, stagnant in ideas, and " the China 
of Christendom," while "William the Silent" 
and other brave leaders had brought the *' Beg- 
gars" to the highest place among the civilized 
countries of the w^orld. 

The Netherlands means the " Low Coun- 
tries," and the name " Low Dutch " is used to 
distinguish the people from the " High Dutch " 
or Germans. 

The United States of Nederland was the first 
federal republic with a written constitution in the 
world. The Dutch cast off the yoke of Spain 
because their rights were invaded and they were 
taxed without their consent. 

In the science and art of cleanliness and 
health the Dutch w^ere pioneers. 



OUR D UTCH ANCESTORS 7 

Resolute, serious, vigilant, the Nederlanders love 
intensely their cold, wet and chilly land. They have 
made the home beautiful, and were the first people 
to glorify it in art. They love science, literature, 
the fine arts and religion. They are quick-witted 
students, sailors, fishers, traders, engineers, explor- 
ers, colonists, freemen. They love law, order and 
liberty. 

Holland was the shelter-land of the Pilgrim Fa- 
thers, training ground of all our colonial soldier-em- 
igrants from Sir Walter Raleigh and John Smith to 
Miles Standish and Jacob Leisler, nurse of the Puri- 
tans, home of republican government, written consti- 
tutions, free press, free schools, democratic rule in 
Church and popular power in State. — Griffis, 

In inventions and industries they have not 
been equaled by any other people. Without any 
water power, they utilized the wind, and GrifBs 
says that counting large and small there are prob- 
ably one hundred thousand windmills in Hol- 
land. With forty mills in constant operation for 
four years they drained a lake twenty-four miles 
in circumference and turned it into eighteen 
thousand acres of very fertile land. 

Weaving and cloth-making were introduced 
into England by the Dutch. 

Linen and rag paper were probably first 
made in Germany in 13 19, and the first paper w^as 
made, and the first paper-mill in England was 
set up by a Dutchman at Dartford in 1590. The 



8 OUR DUTCH ANCESTORS 

first paper-mill in America, near Philadelphia in 
1690, was also the work of a Dutchman. 

Whatever may be said about the Dutchmen's 
part in the first use or invention of printing, one 
thing is certain, the Netherlands soon became 
the chief printing-ofiice of Europe. While play- 
ing-cards, romances, the story of " Reynard, the 
Fox," and the "Mirror of Human Salvation" 
were turned off the presses for the common peo- 
ple, the Latin and Greek classics were edited and 
published for the scholars The Bible was trans- 
lated into Dutch and published in 1477, later be- 
coming so cheap that even poor people could buy 
a copy. To show how far the Dutch were in ad- 
vance of the English in this respect, it is proba- 
ble that as many as twenty-four editions of the 
New Testament and fifteen editions of the Bible 
had been published in the Netherlands before 
one copy of either was printed in England. 

Holland led Europe in a system of free pub- 
lic schools, and those in Leyden were already 
centuries old when the founders of Massachusetts 
dwelt in that city. 

Very important in its influence on industry 
was the introduction of flax. This native of 
Egypt found a congenial home in Nederland. 
Instead of cultivating it for seed and oil, the 
Dutch from the first paid special attention to the 



OUR D UTCH A NCESTORS 9 

development of the stalk, and aimed to secure 
abundant and delicate floss. The stimulus to pro- 
duce fine yarn for lace-makers became so great 
that the flax produce of the southern Nether- 
lands was without a rival. The Dutch raised 
bleaching to the dignity of a fine art. They per- 
severed until the name " Hollands" all over Eu- 
rope meant ** finest linen white as snow." Eight 
months were required to secure the purest white. 

Among their many useful inventions are the 
thimble, the plow, bricks and the "Dutch oven." 

During the first forty years of the rebellion 
it is estimated that over one hundred thousand 
Dutch people removed to England, so that in 
many respects England was Dutch before it was 
English. 

During the twelve years' truce between 
Spain and Nederland (1609 to 162 1) many peo- 
ple went from England to Holland to escape per- 
secution, and when hostilities were renewed they 
came to America as Pilgrims and Puritans ; and 
at the same time the Dutch came over and settled 
chiefly in eastern New Jersey, on Long Island, 
Manhattan Island (1623), and along the Hudson 
and Mohawk rivers to Albany (Fort Orange) and 
Schenectady. Every acre of land occupied was 
bought from the Indians according to Dutch law 
and the West India Company's express order. 



10 OUR DUTCH ANCESTORS 

Their Heidelberg Catechism and their Bibles, 
with their semi-clerical " Comforters of the 
Sick," were brought to America on the very first 
ships sailing into New York bay. 

In 1664, in time of profound peace, English 
ships treacherously made a descent upon Man- 
hattan Island, and the country was seized and 
brought under British rule Then about one- 
half of the Dutch people left America and returned 
to the Fatlierland. This left seven or eight thou- 
sand Netherlanders to become Americans and 
fight with others, for one hundred and thirteen 
years, the arbitrary rule of British kings and 
their favorites, with republican ideas. 

Short as was the occupation, only fifty years, 
from 1 6 14 to 1664, the foundations of the Em- 
pire State were laid by them. The republican 
Dutchmen gave New York its tolerant and cos- 
mopolitan character, insured its commercial su- 
premacy, introduced the common schools, found- 
ed the oldest day school, and the first Protestant 
church in the United States, and were pioneers 
in most of the ideas and institutions we boast of 
as distinctly American. 

The Dutch influence in the making of New 
England, as well as of the United States, has not 
yet been justly or impartially shown in our pop- 
ular books of history, but it is great. In our 



OUR DUTCH ANCESTORS \\ 

government and ideas the American people are 
more Dutch than English. 

In onr Revolutionary war the Dutch sympa- 
thized with us, gave us aid and loaned us money. 
In answer to King George III., they refused to 
allow one man or a single guilder to be used 
against the Americans ; but Claas Taam, a Dutch- 
man, with a fleet of grain ships broke the British 
blockade and relieved Baltimore of pressing need. 
The Dutch bankers of Amsterdam also loaned 
our Colonies fourteen million dollars when most 
wanted ; and for these and other reasons the Brit- 
ish declared war against Nederland. 

In the organization of our government a 
great deal was copied from the Dutch. It was 
from them direct that the coinage of the United 
States was modeled. From the Dutch system 
we borrowed a written Constitution, a Senate or 
States-General, and House of Representatives, 
The Hague, our District of Columbia, the Su- 
preme Court (with vast improvements), the land 
laws, registration of deeds and mortgages, local 
self-government from the town and county to the 
government of governments at Washington, the 
common school system, freedom of religion and 
the press, and many of the details of the Dutch 
state and national system. In a word, the Amer- 



12 OUR DUTCH ANCESTORS 

ican Constitution borrowed more points from that 
of the Dutch than from any other. 

In our Civil war the sympathies of the Dutch 
were wholly with the cause of the Union. The 
bonds of the United States of America sold liber- 
ally in Nederland. Thousands of Dutchmen, 
many of them crossing the ocean for that pur- 
pose, enlisted under the red, white and blue — the 
same colors under which their ancestors fought, 
first for Independence and then for Union. " In 
love of liberty and bravery in defense of it, she 
has been our great example," is what Benjamin 
Franklin said of Holland. 




The coustitution of the Holland Society of 
New York says : — 

"No one shall be eligible as a member unless he be 
of full age, of respectable standing in society, of good 
moral character, and the descendant in the direct male 
line of a Dutchman, who was a native or resident of New 
York, or of the American colonies prior to 1675." 

The latest annual report gives a membership 
of 960, who, b\^ name, represent 291 different 
families who lived here in 1675, many of them 
having been prominent in the affairs of the coun- 
try, such as, — Beekman, Depew, Garretson, Kip, 
Morris, Pruyn, Roosevelt, Schurman, Schuyler, 



Stuyvesant, Van Dj-ke, Van Rensselaer, Van 
Wyck, etc. 

Among the many other names are eight 
Suydams but only one Surdam (Charles PI) al- 
though all bearing that name, being descendants 
of Theunis Pietersz Sardam (see page i6) are 
eligible to membership. 

There is not as yet a society for women of 
Dutch ancestry, but they, except in name, are 
just as Dutch as the men are. 

The seal of the Holland Society, as shown 
above, is similar in style to that of coins used in 
Holland about 1574, and the emblems are copied 
from old coins and medals. 

The one at the top was the arms of Nether- 
lands — a lion holding in his right paw a sword 
encircled with a wreath of laurel of seven leaves, 
and in his left a bunch of seven arrows indicating 
the unity of the seven states and supporting the 
liberty-hat. 

In the center is a warship of the period of 
1609. 

The motto, from a medal of 1605, is — "At 
last a sprout becomes a tree." 

The badge of the society is the "Beggars' 
Medal" which had its origin in the war with 
Spain ; from a contemptuous reference to the 
Dutch as being "only beggars." One of these 
medals was worn by William of Orange at the 
time of his assassination. 

The rosette or button of the society is a 
shield of gold bearing the lion of Holland in red 
enamel. 



TEUNIS PIETERSZ AND FAMILY 



''Annals of Newtown," L. I., by Riker, 
says: "About the year 1710 the sons of Hen- 
dryck Rycken adopted the name Suydam, and 
from these three persons — Jacob, Hendrick and 
Ryck — all the Suydams in this and the adjoining 
states descended." And the Rev. J. Howard 
Suydam, of Philadelphia, formerly of Rhinebeck, 
N. Y., in his little book, " Hendrick Rycken, the 
Progenitor of the Suydam family in America," 
accepts the statement of the "Annals of New- 
towm," and says that according to an estimate 
made in his own line there are and have been 
about one thousand persons bearing the name 
Suydam. They are scattered over the country, 
although the most of them still cluster about the 
ancestral home. 

He also says the name is spelled in various 
forms, as was that of Hendrick Rycken. We 
find it written in various documents as Suydam, 
Serdam, Sudam, Sedam, Sodam, Surdam, Syr- 

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14 TEUNIS PIETERSZ AND FAMILY 

dam, Siedam, Sadam and Van Sudani, and he is 
inclined to think that Van Sudam was the origin- 
al spelling. But in all of his investigation he 
failed to find Sardam in the Albany records, or 
Van Suydam at Hoosick, N. Y. 

It would be a source of gratification to know 
that we are connected with the Rycken Suydams, 
for they are very respectable people — much above 
the average, — and there are several indications 
that such a relationship exists, notably the adopt- 
ing of the surname at about the same time, but 
for the present at least there must remain a 
" missing link/' 

Whether our ancestors, Theunis Petersz and 
Margarita Lawrensse, who assumed the name 
Sardam, were born in Holland, or in this coun- 
try, and when and where they were married have 
not yet been ascertained. Copies of the old rec- 
ords of the Reformed Dutch churches in New 
York, Brooklyn, Kingston. Albany and elsewhere 
have been searched in vain for any trace of them, 
but the search has not yet been abandoned. 

The early church records of Schenectady 
were destroyed when that village was burned in 
1690, and the Albany records from the founding 
of the first Dutch church in 1640 to 1680, during 
which time they must have been born, are not in 
existence. But their marriage, which took place 




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about 1690, should be on record somewhere un- 
less destroyed at Schenectady. It is possible that 
they were born in Holland and married there and 
came to this country before their first child was 
born, in 1691, but that is not at all probable, for 
when the British took possession thousands of 
the Dutch returned to Holland and emigration to 
this country practically ceased. 

Again, although no record of them has been 
found, they may have lived in the vicinity of 
New York, and removed to Dutchess County 
when the first patents for that territory were 
granted : Francois Rembout (a Frenchman) and 
others October 17, 1685 and Po'keepsie and Pe- 
ter Schuyler patents January 2, 1688. The for- 
mer patent covered what is now the two Fish- 
kills, and the latter the present city of Pough- 
keepsie. Rhinebeck patent granted June 17, 1703, 
to Henry Beekman of New York, embraced the 
present towns of Rhinebeck and Red Hook, and 
it is believed that, our ancestor and family lived 
on that patent, for his descendants lived, and 
some still remain, only a little to the eastward in 
New York and Connecticut. 

We first find the name of our paternal ances- 
tor in a will, from which the following translated 
abstract was secured through the kindness of A. 



16 TEUNIS PIETERSZ AND FAMILY 

J. F. van Laer, archivist of the State Library at 
Albany : 

Notarial papers, V. I., p. 57. Albany Co. Cl'ks 
Off. 17 Mch 1661. Will of Jurriaen Theunisz and 
Wybrecht Jacobsz's daughter, his wife (being sick 
in bed) ; done at Beverwyck in New Netherland, 
before Dirck van Schelluyne notary public, and Rev, 
Gideon Schaets and Mr Jacob de Huisse, surgeon, as 
witnesses. 

Testators, having no children alive, appoint as 
their sole and universal heir, the longest living of 
the two, with the understanding that in case the tes- 
tator die first, the testatrix shall remit to Theunis 
Pietersz, the son of testator's sister, the sum of 100 
guilders, and in case the testatrix die first, the testa- 
tor shall hand over to Jacob Cornelisz and Grietje 
Machielosz, the children of the testatrix's brother 
and sister, fifty guilders each ; the longest living to 
give also to the poor of Beverwyck 25 guilders sea- 
want. 

The will is signed Jurryan tunies and W J for 
Wybrecht Jacobsz, which would seem to indicate 
that she was Wybrecht(je) , daughter of Jacobsz, 
though one would at first sight be inclined to think 
that she was the daughter of Wybrecht Jacobsz, Wy- 
brecht being a man's name, van L, 

" Z " ivS an abbreviation of zoon, or sen, the 
Dutch word for son. From this we learn that 
Tunis Pietersz was born before 1661 and that his 
father's name w^as Petersen, or that his christian 
name was Peter ; also that his mother was a Tu- 
nis, which accounts for the fact that the names 



TEUNIS PIETERSZ AND FAMILY 17 

Peter and Tunis continued in the family for sev- 
eral generations. 

Thirty years later the name appears in the 
baptismal records of the Dutch churches at Eso- 
pus and Beverwyck, which names were changed 
by the English to Kingston and Albany : 

Esopus, March 26, 1691. 

Parents Witnesses Child 

Teunis Petersen. No witnesses. Hayltje 

No wife named. ( Baptism by the French minister 

\ Pierre Dailte of N. Y. — recorded by 
( dominie of Albany. 

Beverwyck, Jan. 28, 1694. 

Teunis Peters. Helmet Jans. Pieter. 

Margret I^awrentz. Antje I^awrentz. 

Esopus, Aug. II, 1700. 

Teunis Peterson. Herman Janssen. Ariaantje. 
Margriet I^owritz. Cornelia Tappen. 

Beverwyck, Jan. 23, 1703. 

Tuenis Peterse 

Sardam. Hendrick Jannse Witbeck. Lawrence. 

Margarita Lawrensse Lyntje " 

Beverwyck, Aug. 12, 1705. 

Teunis Petersse. Samuel Van Vechten. Samuel. 

Margarita Lawrense. Antje " 

Beverwyck, Jan. 30, 1709. 

Teunis Peterse Jacob Vosburg. Catharine. 

Margarita Lawrense. Dorothea " 

They did not reside in either Esopus or Be- 
verwyck, but one dominie had charge of both 
churches and entered the baptisms in one or the 
the other just as it happened. 



18 TEUNIS PIETERSZ AND FAMILY 

Pierson's Genealogy gives the name at Al- 
bany as Suidam, and Taylor's History of Great 
Barrington, Mass., has it Suydam, but the de- 
scendants have written their names Sardam, Ser- 
dam, Surdam, Van Surdam, Suydam and Van 
Suydam — at least they so appear in the various 
records 

Dingman Versteeg, the Dutch translator for 
the Holland Society, has been through the rec- 
ords at Albany, and he says the name is Sardam 
and that our ancestors came from Saardam, Hol- 
land. The name was formerly Zaanendam and 
is now Zaandam. That town led the world in 
shipbuilding, and in 1697 Peter the Great, then 
Czar of Russia, spent several months, in disguise, 
there and at Amsterdam studying plans and 
working as a ship carpenter. The Encyclopaedia 
Britannica says : 

Zaandam, Zaanendam, Saardam : — A village of 
Holland five miles by rail northwest of Amsterdam 
at the confluence of the Zaan and Y. The houses 
are mostly of wood painted white or green, and the 
place shares with other villages of North Holland for 
neatness and cleanliness. In the immediate neigh- 
borhood are a very large number of windmills, in- 
cluding corn, paper, saw, coffee, snuff and other 
mills. Peter the Great of Russia wrought at Zaar- 
dam as a ship carpenter, for a short time in 1697, and 
the hut in which he is said to have lived is still shown 
and much visited. Some shipbuilding is still car- 
ried on. The population in 1887 was 14,351. 



TEUNIS PIETERSZ AND FAMILY 19 

For many years the place was called Tsar- 
dam or Saardam, presumably in honor of the 
Czar, and during that time (in 1703) Teunis Pie- 
terse added Sardam to the name of his family. 
He may have thought it an honor to be named 
Czar dam, and we may share with him that ques- 
tionable honor if we wish, but the name appears 
at a much earlier date. Among the emigrants to 
the Dutch colonies on the Delaware River was 
*' a lad from Sardam " ; and among the Dutch 
marriages in New York we find, Nov. 21, 1657, 
" Jan Ariaenszen Van Sardam. widower, and Van 
Pieterje Sippers." Rev. J. Howard Suydam had 
also an account of a Captain Saardam and his 
company of soldiers at Huntington, Long Island, 
in 1687. 

About that time the Dutch who had been 
content to be called " Jan the blacksmith," 
" Hendrick the miller," or " Tunis the son of 
Peter," began to take on family names, and often 
assumed the name of the place they came from, 
as Van (from) Corlaer, Van der (from the) Zee, 
Vanderbilt, Van Rensselaer, and some fancy 
names like Roosevelt, Hoogkerke, Hoogteeling, 
Quakkenbosch, and so forth. 

We next find the name (without Sardam) in 
1 714 in the census of Dutchess County, which 
was '* organized as a county in 1683 with less 



20 TEUNIS PIETERSZ AND FAMILY 

than 500 inhabitants including women, children 

and blacks," but was attached to Ulster County 

until 17 13. The census shows sixty-seven Dutch 

freeholders, among them being : 

Tunis Pieterse. 

Male persons from 16 to 60 years of age — 2 
Female " " " " 3 

Male " under 16 years of age — 2 

Female «« «« «' 2 

Those over sixteen would be the father, 
mother, Pieter, Heyltje, and a third female, per- 
haps Tunis' mother, who would have been about 
sixty ; and those under sixteen were Araantje, 
Lawrence, Samuel, Catharine. In the census of 
1740 the name does not appear. 

This is all we know at present of Tunis Pe- 
tersen, his wife Margaret Lawrence, their son 
Peter and their two daughters, Heyltje and Cath- 
arine, except that the Salisbury town clerk's rec- 
ords say " Margaret Sirdam, mother of Samuel 
Sirdam, died Oct. 10, 1750, in the 79th year of 
her age." vShe was therefore born in 1671 and 
was living with her son Samuel at Salisbury at 
the time of her death. 

The next records we find in Massachusetts. 

A history of Berkshire County, Mass. , says : 

Great Harrington was permanently settled by the 
whites about 1730. Indeed it is said that Lawrence 
and Samuel Surdam (supposed to have been broth- 



TEUNIS PIETERSZ AND FAMILY 21 

ers), from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., settled above the 
bridge and that Joshua White settled below it before 
that period. 

Taylor's History of Great Barrington gives 
the following : 

Of the first settlers of Great Barrington, a major- 
ity were English— several of them from West field 
and that vicinity, and a few more from the state of 
New York. 

There was a great deal of trouble between 
the Massachusetts and the New York settlers, 
but their titles were confirmed in 1733. 

Samuel and Lawrence Suydam, said to have been 
brothers from the state of New York—" Pougekeep- 
sie "—were joint owners of one right and had lands 
laid out to them on the west side of the highway, in- 
cluding the homesteads of the late John Tucker and 
Dr. Samuel Camp-the old Joseph Church place. 
The house of the Suydams is believed to have stood 
where Mrs. Tucker now resides. A very old house 
supposed to have been built by them, stood upon 
that site fifty years ago. 

When a church was built the 3rd pew from the 
pulpit, north of the west door, was sold to Luke 
Noble and Samuel Suydam for forty pounds. 

Lawrence Suydam died here before the 19th of 
May, 1731. Samuel married Janicke (Jane) White 
October 22, 1736, and resided here for some time. 

[The Sheffield (Mass.) Town Clerk's record says: 
" Oct. 22, 1736. Then Samuel Surdam and Yannes- 
ky White were Lawfully Joyned in Marriage."] 



22 TEUNIS PIETERSZ AND FAMILY 

David Church came into possession of the Suy- 
dam homestead about 1750, and Samuel with his fam- 
ily removed to the "Lower Housatonic and lived 
and died at Salisbury, Conn." 

The Westenhook patent, which covered Salis- 
bury and Canaan, Conn., was granted by Gov. Peter 
Schuyler to sixty-two persons '* for the purpose of 
trading with the Indians in beaver skins and other 
furs." They also bought the lands of the Indians 
for 30 shillings per 100 acres, and one payment con- 
sisted of " 460 pounds, English, 3 bbls. sider, and 30 
qts. of rum." 



OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 



The Northamptou (Mass.) probate records 

say : 

The estate of Lawrence Surdon of Houstonnock 
was settled in this court in 1731. Samuel Surdon was 
appointed administrator of the estate of the said 
Lawrence Surdon and Elenor Surdon was appointed 
guardian of Peter Surdon, Andrew Surdon and Tunis 
Surdon, all minors, under the age of fourteen years 
and heirs of Lawrence Surdon, late of Sheffield, de- 
ceased. 

Also : 

An inventory of the Estate of Lawrence Surdam De- 
ceased, taken by Hezekiah Noble and Moses King 
and Sam'l Surdam. 

£ s d 

To one half right in land one hundred 

and fifty acres 150 00 00 

To one Roan Mare, ^4. lo*. To one 

Brown Mare & Colt £6. los. 1 1 00 00 

To one Bay Mare four pounds and Ten 
Shillings a Black Horse twenty five 
pounds 29 10 00 

To one Cow seven Pounds. To one 

23 



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OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 



Steer or Ox, eight Pounds five Shil- 
lings 

To one cow & Calf Seven Pounds & Ten 
Shillings To one Iron Kettle Eight- 
een Shillings 

To seven Pewter Plates, one pound. To 
half of Irons for a slay, Ten Shillings 

To one Iron Kettle, lo.s. To one pair of 
Tongs Ten Shillings 

To one Table Two & Sixpence, one 
feather Bed Six Pounds 

To Two Blankets Thirty Shillings To 
two Linen Sheets one Pound six Shil- 
lings 

To one pair Leather Breeches one Pound 
two silver Buttons twelve Shillings 

To one Jacket one Pound. To one Cout 
Four Pounds. To one Great Cout 
Three Pounds 

To Four Iron Bolts sixteen Shillings. 
To one chair Two shillings six pence 

To one Spinning Wheel fifteen Shillings 
To Wooden Ware Seven Shillings 

To one Bed Stead twelve Shillings, one 
Cow five Pounds ten shillings 



15 05 00 

8 08 00 

I 10 00 

1 00 00 
6 02 06 

2 16 00 
I 12 00 

8 00 GO 

18 06 

1 02 00 
6 06 00 



243 02 00 

Hezekiah Nobi^e \ 
Thomas Dewey [■ 
Moses King ) 



pnzers 



his 

Sam'Iv X SURDAM 

mark 

Hampshire. 

Westfield Feby 10. 1734 | 5 These may cer- 



OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 25 

tifie to the Judge of Probate of sd count}^ that the 
above named Hezekiah Noble, Thomas Dewey and 
Sam'l Surdam, they all appeared & made oath that 
they did apprize the Estate of L,awrence Surdam 
some time since deceased, at Sheffield, according to 
their best skill and understanding & judgment. 

p, John Ashi^ey, Jus peace 

Hampshire 

Westfield March 21st 1734 | 5 Moses King 
the subscriber to the Inventory on the other side was 
sworn to Apprize the estate of Lawrence Surdam of 
Sheffield some time since dec'd 

p. John Ashi^ey. Jus Peace 

Hampshire, ss : 

Jan'y 28, 1908. 
Attest : 

Hubbard M. Abbott, 

Register. 

Peter, Andrew and Tunis, sons of Lawrence, 
and Elenor their mother and Samuel and his fam- 
ily removed to Salisburj^ Conn., and the town 
clerk's records at that place contain the follow- 
ing : 

Peter Serdam of Salisbury and Elizabeth 

Younglove of Sheffield were married October 5, 

1748. 

Elener born Dec. 17, 1748-9 Tunis born Dec. 18, 1754 

Laurance " Oct. i, 1749 Abigail " July I, 1756 

Hannah " Jan. 25, 1750-51 Andrew " July 10, 1758 
Samuel " Dec. 18, 1752 



Jane 


born Jan. i8, 1774 


Daniel 


" June 7, 1776 


Sally 


" Jan. 14, 1779 


John 


" Dec. 8, 1782 



26 OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 

Audrew Sirdara and Margaret White of Sal- 
isbury married Aug. 4, 1751. 

Peter son of Tunis Serdam ist and Jane born 

Dec. 7, 1761. 
Elener born Apr. 4, 1763 
Christena " Aug. 27, 1765 
Hannah " July 9, 1768 
Lydia " Feb. i, 1771 

Born Jan 26, 1749, a son to Samuel Surdam 
and Jane his wife who died in three weeks. 

A daughter born Oct. 10, 1755, and died 
Nov. I, 1755. 

Margaret, born Dec. 16, 1759- 

Samuel, born Mch 18, 1761. 

Jane, born Aug. 8, 1762, died Apr 14, 1766. 

Margaret Sirdam mother of Samuel Sirdam 
died Oct. 10, 1750, in the 79th year of her age. 

Hyman Jacob Bogrough & Hannah Sardam 
married Mch 30, 1769. 

Henry son of Henry & Silvia Surdam, born 
Oct 18. 1787. 

Selvester born Apr 2, 1890. 

Sylvester C. Sardam & Parmelia Joyce, mar- 
ried Dec 7, 1850. 

A son born Dec 2, 1857. 

Polly, daughter of Charity Sardam, born in 
Salisbury Sep 16, 1781. 



OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 27 

Joshua Sardam and Charity Whitney both of 

Salisbury married Oct 15, 1766. 

Charity born Dec 2, 1772 Hannah born Feb 16, 1767 
Christopher" Oct 12,1773 Jane " Oct 21, 1769 

Noah " Mch 27, 1776 

Susannah da of Tunis & Abigail Surdam 
born June 1766. 

John born Mch 17, 1767. 

Hannah born Feb. 28, 1777. 

Mary & Sarah Twins born Nov. 26, 1779. 

William Sardam Jr & Delia Sardam, both of 
Salisbury married Apr 6, 1851. 

James E Reid of Darien & Phebe A. Sardam 
of Salisbury married June i, 1840. 

Benjamin Harrison & Christien Surdam, 
both of Salisbury married Nov. 26, 1789. 

Seneca Sardam & Catherine Ostrander mar- 
ried Jan 7, 1865. 

Children of Daniel & Letty Surdam : 
Eliza born Oct 20, 1799 Letty born Aug i, 1809 
Jerusha " Oct 8,1802 Martha E. " Aug i, 1811 
Jane " Nov 8, 1804 

Alexander Sardam & I^ouisa Comstock mar- 
ried Nov. 3, 1855. 

Lillian Gertrude born May 17, 1876. 

Harry. Lee. Millington & Minnie L. Suy- 
dam, married Oct 26, 1897 

(daughter of the above) 



28 OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 

James Sardam and Marj^ E. Senior married 
Aug 2, 1898. 

Arthur son of Luther Suydam & Mary Os- 
trander born Mch 2, 1882. 

Arthur Surdam died May 10, 1883, age i 
yr. 2 mo. 

Levi Mason & Fanny Suydam both of Salis- 
bury married July 4, 1837. 

Mary, da of Solomon & Louisa Surdam, born 
July 17, 1794, died Sep 23, 1796. 
Andrew, born May 17, 1796. 
Polly, born June 11, 1798. 

Herrick son of Reuben & Cathrine Sardam, 
born Feb i, 1848. 

A son born to Mrs & Mr. Harrison Sardam, 
Apr 20, 1864. 

A dau. born to James & Julia Sardam, Sep 
10, 1864. 

A da to William H Sardam & Mary, April 
22, 1869 

A da to Philander «& Catherine Sardam, born 
Sep 20, 1869. 

A da to Ira Sardam & wife born June 4, 
1871. 

A son to Luther Surdam & wife born April 
6, 1874. 



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OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 29 

A son to Frederick Sardam and Lucinda 
Rossi ter born May 5, 1876. 

da. of Fred Sardam & Lucinda Rossiter born 
Jan 22, 1880. 

Albert born Mch 1, 1882. 

Sarah Sardam died April 14, 1856. 
John Sardam died Dec 5, 1863. 
Luther Sardam died Dec. 1867. 
Mary Sardam died Mch i, 1870. 

Mrs. Hiram Sardam died Sep 29, 1870. 

" Jan. I, 1871. 

Ira Sardam died Nov. 23. 1871. 

George Sardam & Alma Bidwell married 
Sep 16, 1862. 

Alma Sardam died Apr 12, 190-, aged 64 
yr 6 mo 23 ds. 

Henry Benas & Ida B. Suydam (daughter 
of above), married Jan 19, 1893. 

Philander Sardam, died Aug. 11, 1891, son 
of Daniel & Lydia Sardam. 

Jane da of James Sardam and Hannah Os- 
trander born Mch 5, 1880. 

Hiram son of William Suydam & Rose Os- 
trander born May 18, 1880. 



30 OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 

Isaac, son of William Suydam & Kate Man- 
son, born May 8, 1881. 

Julia A. Surdam, died Apr 7, 1897, ^g^ 62 
yr. 6 mo. 

Philip James Suydam, died Apr 12, 1900. 

Jacob Surdam, died June i, 1901 age, 10 
yr. 2 mos 16 da. 

Son of. Col. Sardam. 

Lumen Surdam, died Feb. 26, 1897, son of 
Julia Sherman «& James Surdam. 

Elizabeth Surdam, da of William Surdam & 
Lydia Coons, born Aug 8, 1901. 

Thomas. Lindley & Catherine Sardam, mar- 
ried May I, 1 88 1. 

Blanford Earl, son of John M. Suydam & 
Kate Ball born July 20, 1896 died May 29, 1897. 
Milton John born Mch 8, 1898, died May 27, 1899 
Kennard Crystal born Aug 8, 1902. 
Inga Ma5^ born Oct 26, 1900. 
Milburn John, Dec 4, 1904. 

Flavia Marguerite Surdam da of Ira O. Sur- 
dam & Martha J. Sackett born Jan 20, 1900. 

The town clerk's office at Sharon, Conn., 
contains records of an early date, when Salisbury 
and Sharon were in the same probate district ; 
among them are the following : 



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OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 31 

ESTATE OF JOSHUA WHITE 

Will dated 3d day of Oct 1765 *' in the year of 
his Majesties reign " 

Will probated June 5th 1766. 
Inventoried ^580-1-8. 

The distribution was not made until the 29th day 
of May 1788. 

Parties named in will as follows 
Wife Christina, Son RulufF, Daughter Jane, wife 
of Samuel Surdam, Son William, Margaret wife of 
Andrew Surdam and Hannah, wife of Richard Bag- 
nail. 

Distributed as follows 

To the heirs of William White 
" " Jane Surdam 

" " Margaret Surdam 

" " Hannah Bignall 

ESTATE OF SAMUEL SURDAM 

Will dated July 25, 1771 Proved, Jan. 10, 1772. 
Executors, wife Jane and son Tunis, Estate set- 
tled by Tunis July 2. 1777. Mentioned in will : sons 
Tunis, Joshua and Samuel ; daughters Hannah Ja- 
cobs and Margaret, not yet eighteen. Grandson Sam- 
uel Jacob Bograh. The widow, Jane, is made guard- 
ian of her son Samuel, a minor, aged eleven. 
Tunis is her surety — bonds 300 pounds. 

his 
Signed Samuei. X Surdam 

mark. 

Will of Jane Sardam (widow of Samuel) Dated 
June 16, 1772— proved Mar 7, 1774 Children, Tunis, 
Joshua, Margaret and Samuel. Grand Children 



32 OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 

Samuel and Jane Bockroh ; gives away land which is 
not to be sold until after the death of her mother, 
Christeen White. Joshua is executor. 

June 22, 1774 Samuel Sardam aged fourteen the 
5th of April last chooses Ruloff Dutcher to be his 
guardian. 

January 16, 1779 ^^^ estates of Joshua Sardam 
and Margaret Surdam are administered by Charity 
Surdam. 

Sept 10, 1777. Charity Surdam is appointed 
guardian of Hannah aged ten years last Feb. 16, Jane 
seven the 22 of October, Charity five the 12, of last 
October, Noah one the 27, of March, all children of 
Joshua Sardam late of Salisbury. 

Will of Tunis Sardam (son of Samuel) of Salis- 
bury, Conn. 

Dated March 24, 1810. 

Named in will, — son Samuel. Daughters Han- 
nah Durfey, Sarah Sardam, Susannah Comegin. 

Grand children, George, Jonahan, John, Mary, 
Charity and Ruby Comegin ; John, Tunis, and Abi- 
gail Durfee ; and Hymen Harris. 

Executors, — wife Jane Sardam and Elisha Harris. 

TUNIS Sardam. 

{David Chapin 
Esther Ball 
John Whittlesey 

ESTATE OF ANDREW SURDAM 

Administrators appointed Apr 25, 1809 

Inventory $2357.58. 

On the 2oth day of July 1809 the Administrator 



OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 33 

appeared in Court and gave information to said Court 
"that the inventory was a mistake, as none of the 
property inventoried belonged to him, at the time of 
his death." 

ESTATE OF TUNIS SARDAM IST. (son of Lawrence) 

Will— dated Mar. 29, 1806, probated Feb. 25, 180S. 
In the Name of God. Amen. 

I Tunis Sardam of Salisbury in Litchfield Coun- 
ty and State of Connecticut Being in Health of Body 
and of Sound mind and Disposing memory, thanks 
to God therefor calling to mind my Own Mortality and 
knowing that it is appointed to all men once to die 
do make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament 
in form and manner following, that is to say princi- 
pally and first of all, I Recomend my Soul to God 
who gave it me, trusting in the merits of his Son for 
acceptance and my Body I give to the Earth from 
whence it came to be Buried in a Decent and Chris- 
tian manner Nothing Doubting but I shall Reseive 
the same again by the mighty Power of God at the 
general Resurection, and with what worldly goods it 
hath pleased God to Bless me with in this life, I give 
and Dispose thereof in the following manner (Viz) 
my Debts and funeral charges being paid. 

Imprimis. I give and Bequeath to my beloved wife 
Jane Surdam the one third of my movable or Person- 
al Estate, and also the use and improvement of One 
Third of my Real Estate with the use of the Third 
part of my Dwelling House and Barn for and during 
her Natural Life. 

Item I give and Bequeath to my Son Peter Sardam 
and to his Heirs the One Equal Half of the lands I 



34 OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 

Die posessed of in Mount Washington with the one 
half of my Right in the Dwelling House Standing on 
the Farm wath the whole of my wearing apparel I 
shall leave at my Decease. 

Item I give and Bequeath to my Son Daniel Sardam 
and to his Heirs the One Equal Half of all the lands 
I Die posessed in the Town of Salisbury with One 
Half of the Dwelling House in which I now live (viz) 
the western half with the One Half of my Barn and 
other Buildings, and one half of all my Stock of Ev- 
ery kind I Die posessed of. and also one half of my 
Farming utensils of every kind subject to the En- 
cumbranse of the Widows Dowry therein 

Item I give and Bequeath to my Son John Sardam 
and to his Heirs the one Equal Half of all the lauds 
I Die Posessed of in the Town of Salisbury with the 
one Half of the Dwelling House in which I now live 
(viz) the Eastern half with one half of the Barn and 
other Buildings thereon standing and one Half of 
the Stock of every kind I Die posessed of and also 
One half of my Farming utensils of Every kind sub- 
ject to the encumbronse of the Widows Dowry 
therein. 

Item I give and Bequeath to my Grandson John vSar- 
dam and to his heirs the One Equal Half of my lands 
in Mount Washington that I Die posessed of with 
one half of Right in the House standing on said 
lands 

Item I give and Bequeath to Each of my Daughters 
Christeen, Hannah, Jane and Sarah or to their Heirs 
the sum of Forty six Dollars to be paid to Each one 
of them by my two Sons Daniel and John in Equal 
proportion Out of my Estate within the Term of sev- 
en years after my Decease. 



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OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 35 

Item I give and Bequeath to my Daughter Lydia or 
her Heirs Sixty Dollars to be paid by my two Sons 
Daniel and John in Equal Proportion out of my Es- 
tate within the Term of Seven Years after my De- 
cease 

Lastly I constitute and appoint my two Sons Daniel 
Sardam and John Sardam my Sole Executors of this 
my last Will and Testament 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
and Seal at Salisbury this 29th day of March in the 
year 1806 Signed sealed Published pronounced and 
Delivered by the Said Tunis Sardam to be his Last 
will and Testament who in Our presence Signed and 
Sealed the same and who in the presence of the said 
Tunis Sardam and in the presence of Each Other 
have hereunto subscribed our Names as Witnesses 

Solomon Sardam \ 

William Sardam - Tunis Sardam 

John Whittlesey ) 

The birth, marriage and death records of 
Sharon regarding the Surdams are as follows : 

William Surdam and Sally Lockwood mar- 
ried Jan 19th 18 1 8 

Trowbridge Surdam and Mary Ann Fuller 
both of Amenia N. Y Married Oct 12. 1828 

Inscription on gravestone in cemetery at 

Sharon : 

vSurdam William d. April 2d 1880. Age 84 y, 6 mos 
Surdam Sarah wife of William d Jan 27th 1883. Age. 

82 




36 OLD RECORDS AND INSCRIPTIONS 

Inscriptions on tombstones at Hoosick, N. 

Y.: 

In memory of Mr. Anthony Surdam he died No- 
vember 14th 1841. in the 85th year of his age. 

In memory of Cibber wife of Anthony Surdam 
who died October 8th 1826 aged 66 years 

In memory of Andrew Van Surdam Died April 
27, 1834 in the 74 year of his age 

Esther wife of Andrew Van Surdam Died April 
2d 1849 in the 89th year of her age 

In memory of Mr. Samuel Van Surdam who died 
Dec 8th 1801 in the 48 year of his age. 

Mrs. Caziah Van Surdam died Oct 17th 1809 in 
the 50th year of her age. Wife of Mr Samuel Van 
Surdam 

Samuel Van Surdam died Aug. 31, 1853 aged 
70 yrs, 6 mos, 17 days. 

Sally Willimon wife of Samuel Van Surdam, 
born Sept. 19, 1783, died May i, 1871. 

Polly Van Surdam, daughter of Samuel and 
Sally, born July 26, 1813, died Nov. 12, 1883. 

Delaney Van Surdam, daughter of Samuel 
and Sally, died Dec. 26, 1835 aged 17 years 10 
months 

Lafayette, son of Samuel and Sally died 
Dec. 24, 1844 aged 20 years 2 mo 24 days. 



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FAMILY TRADITIONS 



Family traditions are generally helpful, but 
sometimes unreliable, as will be seen from the 
following : 

William Sardam, of Canaan, Conn , wrote in 
1895 : 

The First Book of Records of Great Barring- 
ton, Mass., contains the record of a grant from 
the King of a tract of land, " Lower Housaton- 
ic," to sixty-two persons, among whom were 
Samuel and Low Surdam, brothers ; also Perry. 

Our Sardam ancestry are from Samuel and 
Law. or Laurens ; but the name should be spelled 
Suydam — the regular Dutch way. 

I was born in 1826. My father was Adoni- 
ram, born in 1800. His father was William, born 
in 1773. His father was Audrey or Andrew. 

Andrew and Teunis were cousins ; also next 
door neighbors. 

Teunis had a son Daniel. He had a son 
Daniel, and he a son John. John was my neigh- 

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38 FAMILY TRADITIONS 

bor for many years. I have only mentioned one 
in a generation — there were many. I have heard 
of Fitch. John Sardam is a well-to-do farmer ; 
lives in Marlboro, Mass. ; knows nothing of his 
genealogy beyond his grandfather, and nothing 
of his family history. 

Harrison Sardam is a day laborer, a descend- 
ant of Daniel. That is all he knows. 

Our Sardams were among the first settlers in 
Salisbury, in the district called Wetong on the 
Housatonic river — five families of Dutch and one 
of English. 

Beyond the Barrington records you will have 
to search the old Dutch records of Albany. 

Washington Irving gives Suydams as among 
the first settlers of New York. 

Am going to Wetong to see an old lady who 
knows about Teunis and his posterity. The 
country is full of Sardams. 

Julia Surdam Ayers, Salisbury, Conn.: 

You ask me what I know of the Surdams. 

They have always said there were three 
brothers came from Amsterdam, Holland, and all 
the Surdams spring from them. I cannot tell 
their names. They were called Amsterdam as 
they did not know their name in English. The 
right name is Petersen. 



FAMILY TRADITIONS 39 

My grandfather's name was Peter Surdam, 
and he lived in Steventown, New York, and Mt. 
Washington, Mass. He died there in 1812. I 
cannot tell where he was born. He was the son 
of Tunis. I do not know when he died or where. 
This Peter had twelve children and my father 
was one of them — Daniel, born in 1794, died 1875. 
Daniel had six children. Two died in infancy. I 
am the oldest of his children. I was born in 18 14. 
If you could get the old history of Connecticut 
you could get facts of the first settlers of the 
Surdams — further back than I can go. 

Eliza Fitch Clark (born in 18 14) : 

The brothers were Peter, Daniel and John ; 
the sisters, Hannah, Eleanor, Christina, Lydia, 
Jane and Sally. Eleanor died when she was about 
fourteen years of age. 

The father of this family was Tunis, and is 
likely the same man that William Sardam calls 
Teunis. He (Tunis) emigrated to this country 
from Holland and brought his wife with him, 
settled at Salisbury and died there. His wife 
was partly of Dutch and partly of French extrac- 
tion — more French than Dutch ; was well edu- 
cated at Amsterdam. 

Tunis was well-to-do. Peter, the eldest son, 
remained on the old homestead, raised a family 
and died there. 



40 FAMILY TRADITIONS 

Daniel married Letty Maria Slater, who was 
born and raised in the city of Hudson. 

John was not married. He came to Mara- 
thon, stayed a year or two at the Fitch's, and 
went back to Salisbury and died there. 

Tunis left several thousand dollars apiece to 
Daniel and John, who both contracted the habit 
of drinking whiskey and lost nearly all. 

David Fitch and his wife, Sally Surdam, went 
from Salisbury to Oxford, N. Y., in 1799 ; from 
there to Greene, from there to Cincinnatus, or 
Marathon ; from there to Dunlap Hill — Berk- 
shire, afterward named Richford. 

Rev. C. M. Surdam, District Superintendent M. 
E. Church, Owego, N. Y. : 

I have no knowledge of my paternal ances- J 

try farther back than my grandfather, whose h 

name was Anthony. He lived in the vicinity of ' 

Hoosick Falls, N. Y. I have an uncle there by 
the name of Walter ; possibly he or his sons 
might be able to give you more information. I 
do not know whether the name should be Suy- 
dam or not. 

H. S. Surdam, Fitchburg R. R. Co., Hoosick 
Falls Station, N. Y.: 

My grandfather Surd am 's name was Antho- 
ny. He was born in 1796 and died in 1877. His 



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FAMILY TRADITIONS 41 

father, who was also named Anthony, was born 
about 1760 and died in 1840. He had brothers 
Tunis and (father thinks) Samuel. 

With reference to spelling the nameSuydam, 
father says that it was always spelled Surdam as 
far as his recollection and records go, and that it 
should be prefixed with Van — that is, the name 
should be Van Surdam. His father and uncles 
wrote their names in that way and so did his 
grandfather. Father usually wrote his name Van 
Surdam and so did my uncle Henderson, after 
whom I am named. 

About twenty years ago an old resident of 
this place wrote " The Annals of Hoosick." 
They appeared in a weekly paper that was pub- 
lished here at that time and ran through some 
forty or fifty numbers. One of the numbers con- 
tained a reference to the Surdam family and as- 
serted that the original name as it came from 
Holland was Van Dam. I have tried to find a file 
of papers that had these Annals in them, but 
have not succeeded in doing so. I have no doubt 
however that I shall find them. And in the 
meantime I wish you would write me giving me 
your ancestral line, and we may thus be enabled 
to trace the connection and unearth facts of ad- 
vantage to you. 



42 FAMILY TRADITIONS 

Rochester, N. Y., May 21, 1S98. 
Mr. Surdam, c I o Harper Bros., New York : 

Dear Sir : — Pardon the liberty of this note, 
but one of our men had a line a few days ago 
from Harper Bros, signed by you. I am some- 
what curious, bearing" the same name, to know 
from what branch of the family you came, for I 
suppose all of that name came to this country 
about the same time and have descended from 
four brothers. 

My father was William ; my grandfather 
was Peter, and that generation wrote their names 
as Van Surdam or Van Suydam. My great- 
grandfather was Andrew. That is as far back as 
I am able to trace our lineage. 

Shall be pleased to hear from you. 
Very truly yours, 

C. A. Surdam. 



LAWRENCE AND SAMUEL SURDAM 



It would be interesting to know what became 
of all the members of the families of Tennis Pie- 
tersz and his sons Lawrence and Samuel, but no 
trace of some of them has been found, although 
a search has been made of the records of vital 
statistics, marriages and wills at Great Barring- 
ton, Salisbur}^ Northampton, Sheffield, Pitts- 
field, Poughkeepsie, Sharon, Hudson, Troy, 
Kingston, Canaan, North Canaan, Millerton, Ea- 
gle Mills, Hoosick Falls and Steventown. [The 
records of Mount Washington and Egremont 
were destroyed by fire about 1S50 ] Enough 
however has been found to clearly trace and lo- 
cate the branches of the several families. 

If we could have looked in upon the house- 
hold of ** freeholder " Tennis Pietersz in Dutch- 
ess County we might easily have imagined that 
we were in Holland. Everything was Dutch, or 
as nearly Dutch as could be in a transplanted 
colony — Dutch language, Dutch dress, Dutch 

43 



44 LAWRENCE AND SAMUEL 

customs, " The clang of the woodeu shoon." 
The children laughed and cried in Dutch and, 
no doubt, were spanked in Dutch. 

The same was true of all or nearly all the 
other families of the little " colonic." But out- 
side their homes, what a contrast ! Nothing was 
Dutch. They had been transplanted from " the 
flower garden of Europe" to pioneer homes 
among the rocks and hills and primeval forests of 
a new world, with American Indians for neigh- 
bors, and the British government to rule over 
them. 

But they faced the future with characteris- 
tic courage and fortitude and continued the bat- 
tle of life, not for wealth or political preferment, 
but for the home and fireside — the "simple life" 
and the luxuries of honest toil, frugality and con- 
tentment, and I have never known a descendant 
of our Dutch ancestors who had not a good home 
and the comforts of life. 

Teunis Pietersz was a farmer, and his de- 
scendants generally have followed the same time- 
honored and independent occupation. He was 
also a member of the Reformed Dutch Church, 
and no doubt he would be delighted if he could 
look carefully along the line of his posterity to 
the present time and find hardly a single ' ' black 
sheep ' ' or one whose reputation would disgrace 



LAWRENCE AND SAMUEL 45 

the family or the name he gave us — which the 
writer of this believes to be true. 

The family remained in Dutchess County 
until the children were grown ; and Teunis and 
his eldest son Peter and his daughters may have 
died there ; but the mother, Margaret, in her old 
age went to Salisbury to live with her son Sam- 
uel, and died at that place in 1750. Peter evi- 
dently retained the name Petersz (Petersen), for 
none of his descendants have been found among 
the Surdams. 

About 1725 Lawrence and Samuel were among 
those who settled at what is now Great Barring- 
ton, Mass. They obtained one hundred and fifty 
acres of land by patent from the Governor — or 
by purchase, at a small price, and then for the 
sake of peace, and no doubt wnth a sense of jus- 
tice, purchased the same from the Indians. The 
State line not having been clearly established 
they also had to deal with the English who came 
from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and claimed 
the territory settled in that vicinity. 

Lawrence w^as married and had one child, 
Peter, before he removed to Great Barrington, 
and when he died, in 1731, aged only twenty- 
eight years, he left three children, Peter, An- 
drew and Tunis, and a widow, Eleanor. We 
have no record of who she was or what became of 



46 LA WRENCE AND SAMUEL 

her. We only know that she was appointed 
guardian of the three children. 

Samuel remained single until 1736, when he 
married Janesky White, daughter of Joshua 
White. 

In 1748 Samuel Church, an Englishman, ^j 

bought theSurdam property, and Samuel and his f 

family and his three nephews and Joshua White 
and family removed to Salisbury, Conn., and took 
lands under the Westenhook patent granted by 
Governor Schuyler of New York. 

The colony of sixty-two families was no 
doubt mostly English, with some French Hugue- 
nots and Dutch, and during that generation the 
Dutch language, spoken and written, and Dutch 
customs and characteristics generally disappeared. 
Educational advantages were very meager, and 
some of the children were not even taught to read 
and write. 

Samuel died at Salisbury in 1772, aged sixty- 
seven years, and left besides his widow three chil- 
dren, Tunis, Joshua and Hannah, who were born 
in Great Barrington, and one son, Samuel, and 
one daughter, Margaret, who were born in Salis- 
bury. A son born in 1749 and a daughter born 
in 1755 died in infancy, and a daughter, Jane, 
born in 1762, died in 1766. Jane, the widow, 
died in 1774. Hannah married Jacob Bograh in 



LAWRENCE AND SAMUEL 47 

1769 and died before 1774, leaving two children, 
Samuel and Jane. Joshua married Charity 
Whitney, October 15, 1766, and died in 1779. 
They had five children, Hannah, Jane, Charity, 
Christopher and Noah 

Margaret also died in 1779. 

Tunis married Abigail , and died in 

181 1, leaving a widow, one son, Samuel, and 
three daughters, Hannah Durfey, Susannah 
Comegin, and Sarah Sardam ; also at least ten 
grandchildren. 

These children, grandchildren and great- 
grandchildren of Samuel and their descendants 
seem to have remained in that vicinity, and gen- 
erally to have spelled the name Sardam. 



DESCENDANTS OF LAWRENCE SURDAM 

(THE SON OF TUNIS PIETERSZ) 



Peter, the eldest son of Lawrence, died Au- 
gust 22, 1801, in the seventy-eighth year of his 
age. He was therefore born in 1723 or 1724, and 
probably in Dutchess County. In 1748 he mar- 
ried Elizabeth Younglove of Sheffield, Mass. 
They lived at Salisbury and had seven children, 
Elenor, Lawrence, Hannah, Samuel, Tunis, Ab- 
igail and Andrew. Between 1760 and 1770 the 
family removed to Hoosick, N. Y. They are 
known as the Hoosick branch of the Surdam 
family, and have spelled their names Surdam and 
Van Surdam. 

Peter and his son Andrew took part in the 
battle of Bennington, which Anderson, in " Land- 
marks of Rensselaer County," says was not 
fought at Bennington at all, but in Hoosick and 
on the farm now in possession of Franklin P. Sur- 
dam, a son of Calvin Surdam, mentioned at some 
length in Sylvester's History of Rensselaer Coun- 

48 



LA WRENCE 49 

ty. Sylvester also mentions Anthony (Tunis) 
and Samuel, who with their father, Peter, are 
buried in the little family cemetery on the Good- 
ing farm (Gooding's wife was a Surdam on the 
mother's side). 

Anthony harbored General Stark and several 
of his officers, and just before the battle the gen- 
eral said, in Anthony's house, " I'll win the bat- 
tle to-day or Mollie Stark will lay a widow to- 
night," — which is similar to his exclamation on 
the battlefield. Andrew at least drew a pension 
for his services in the war of the Revolution. 

The writer has no knowledge of the death of 
Peter's wife or the place of her burial. Two of 
Peter's daughters must have died in early life, 
for the oldest family records and traditions give 
only one daughter, Abigail, who married David 
Chace. 

The following was furnished by Mrs. James 
W. Garber, of Syracuse, N. Y.: 

Abigail Surdam, born July 6, 175S. Wife of Da- 
vid Chace, born Feb. 1752. 

Mehitable Chace, born Nov. i. 1776. Wife of 
David Gooding, born Sept. 27, 1770. 

Melinda Gooding, born in White Creek, Wash- 
ington Co., N. Y., July 5, 1792. Wife of Jabes Tall- 
cott, Jr., born in Glostenbury, Hartford Co., Conn., 
Sept. 13, 1790. 

Rosetta M. Tallcott, born in White Creek, Wash- 



50 LA WRENCE 

ington Co., N. Y., Jan. ii, 1825. Wife of William 
Sheldon, born in Yorkshire, Eng., Aug. 12, 1824. 

Mrs. Sheldon had one sister and five broth- 
ers, onl}^ one now living, Wilbur Tallcott of Con- 
stantia, N. Y. 

Mrs. Garber was Melinda Sheldon (she has 
always omitted the Mc) and a great-granddaugh- 
ter of Abigail Surdam. She has in her posses- 
sion a string of thirty-six gold beads that were 
given to Abigail when she was a little girl one 
hundred and fifty years ago. 

Mrs. Garber has one sister only, Mrs. John 
W. Brown of Syracuse. 

Mrs. Mary C. Fillmore of Bennington, Vt., 
says : 

David Chace was my great-grandfather. I have 
his large family Bible printed in 1803 and bound in 
leather, with the true records. 

David Chace born Feb 1st 1752 Died Oct 26th 
1835 Monday morning 

Abigail Surdam, born July 6th 1758 Died Dec 
12, 1813 

My grandfather, David Gooding, married Me- 
hilable Chace, only child of David Chace. 

David Gooding, born Sept. 27, 1770, died May 
28, 1846. Mehitable Chace, born Nov. i. 1776, died 
Aug. 27, 1858. Married in White Creek, N. Y., Mch 
4, 1791- 








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Children of David and Mehitable Gooding 



Melinda, 

Phcebe, 

Abigail, 

David Chace, 

Mathew, 

Polly, 

Cyrus, 

Peleg Wilbur, 

Adaline, 

Caroline Jane, 

Weltha Maria 

Lovina Rogers, 

Mahala Mann, 



Borji 
July 6, 1792, 
March 4, 1794, 
April 4, 1796, 
March 16, 1799, 
Sept. 26, 1801, 
Nov. 26, 1803, 
Sept. 18, 1805,, 
Sept. 18, 1807, 
January 14, 1810. 
Sept 13, 1811, 
Sept. 6, 1813, 
August 8, 1816, 
May 19, 1818, 



Died 
October 31, 1874. 
December 8, 1872. 
March 18, 1814. 
October 17, 1853. 
Nov. 28, 1871 
March 25, 1888. 
January 25, 1891. 
February 18, 1871. 
Sept. I, 1820. 
March 28, 1888. 
March 5, 1887. 
January 22, 1899. 
July 26, 1880. 



The other records are : 
Abigail Langdon, born March 12, 1750, died Nov 10 

aged 97 years. 
Aunt Amy Bull died Jan 8, 1836, friday. 
Aunt Eunice Wilcox, died July 20, 1838, Thursday. 
Uncle Daniel Chace, died. July 30, 1838. 
Uncle Anthony Van Surdam died Dec 14, 1841. 

Lovina R. Gooding above was my mother. My 
father's name was Orville E. Ellsworth, cousin of 
Col. Elmer Ellsworth, who was first to be shot in the 
war of the Rebellion. 

My family are all dead but an only brother, O. 
G. Ellsworth, Friend, Salina Co., Nebraska. I have 
no family except a son. My husband's father was 
first cousin to Millard Fillmore, former president of 
the United States. 



Lawrence, the eldest son of Peter, married 



52 LA WRENCE 

I^uj-any and went to some part of the 

West and was lost track of by his relatives. 
There was a Surdam in Ohio whose daughter or 
granddaughter was secretary for A. S. Draper 
when he was president of the Illinois State Uni- 
versity. She may be a descendant of Lawrence. 
Samuel, the second son of Peter, remained 
at Hoosick, as is shown by tombstone inscriptions 
at that place. (See page 36 ) 

Tunis, the third son of Peter, changed his 
name to Anthony. His baptismal name was Tu- 
nis. H. Versteeg, the Dutch translator for the 
Holland Society, says that Tunis is the Dutch 
and Anthony the English for Antonius, and in 
the old family Bible in the possession of Franklin 
P. Surdam is recorded: "Tunis Anthony Van 
Surdam Died Decb 1841 age 85." He was born 
in Salisbury, Conn., December 18, 1754. accord- 
ing to the town clerk's record, but the family 
records have it December 18 1756. He and his 
wife lived and died at Hoosick. The tombstone 
inscriptions are : 

In memory of Mr. Anthony Surdam he died No- 
vember 14th 1841. in the 85th year of his age. 

In memory of Cibber* wife of Anthony Surdam 
who died October 8th 1826 aged 66 years 

^Intended for Sybil. 



LA WRENCE 53 

He assisted in the war of the Revolution, 
as stated above, and did his share toward raising 
soldiers for future wars. 

The following records were furnished by the 
Rev. F. W. Winters : 

Anthony Van Suydam Sr. born i8. Dec 1756. 

Sybil wife born 13. Jan. 1761 
Children : 

Lois, born Oct. 12, 1781, married Jacob Carlton. 

Bathsheba, b. April 5, 1783, m. Jacob Cronkhite. 

Cecilia, b. July 8, 1784, m. David Case. 

Hannah, b. June 3, 1786, m. Henry Cronkhite. 

David, b. March 25, 1788, ni. Amy Babesche. 

Seneca, b. April 27, 1790. 

Cynthia, b. September 7, 1791, m. Michael Loomis. 

Allen, b. December 16, 1793, m. Anna Carlton and 
Louise Slarrow. 

Mahalah, b. April 29, 1795, m. Abram Cronkhite, b. 
1788, d. 1868. 

Anthony, Jr., b. October 12, 1796, m. Lu fanny Cronk- 
hite. 

Younglove, b. Sept. 7,1798. m. Parmey Hastings. 

Frelove, b. July 3, 1801, m. Joseph Barbier. 

Sophronia, b. March 6, 1803, m. Cyrus Chase. 

Children of Anthony Surdam, Jr., and Lu fanny 

Kronkhite : 

Malvina, m. Rev. James Watt — Congregational. 

Henderson, m. Margaret Beatty. 

Miriam, b. May 10, 1821, m. William Winters, de- 
scended from Peter de Winter, who came to this 
country prior to 1639, ^^d was the first innkeeper 
in New Amsterdam. 



o4 LA WRENCE 

Sarah, not married, died in 23rd year. 

Rosella, m. Charles Hall. 

Lovisa, m. Robinson. Had daughter who m. 

Sherwood Hanna and resided in Jersey City. 
Cordelia, b. 1831, m. Thomas Brown. 
Walter, b. March 25, 1825, m. Amy , d. April 

9, 1902. 
Morgan, m. . Had children Eva, Eugene 

and (Rev.) Charles M. 

Melissa, m. Doremus. He died in Newark. 

Sybil, m. George Rose. 
Isadore, m. Robert Jackson. 

Lu fanny (dead), m. Benson. 

Henderson, 2nd. 
William. 

Andrew, the fourth son of Peter, and his 
wife and at least one son lived and died at Hoo- 
sick. (See tombstone inscriptions, page 36.) 

Charles Arthur Surdam of Rochester, N. 
Y. , gives the following record of his line of the 
descendants of Andrew : 

FIRST FAMILY. 

■^Andrew Van Surdam, born June 12, 1760. 
Esther Van Surdam, born June 14, 1760. 

Births. 
Sarah, b. November 24, 1780. 
Esther, b. December 2, 1781. 
Samuel, b. February 24, 1783. 
^Peter, b. March 14, 1787. 
Tunis and Andrew, b. January 18, 1794- 
Nancy, b. January 5, 1796. 



LA WRENCE 55 

SECOND FAMII^Y. 

♦Peter Van Surdatn, born May 14, 1787. 
Nancy Van Surdam, born August 17, 1782. 

Births. 
Hannah, b. January 16, 1807, 
Henry, born January i, 1809. 
Peter Lyman, b. January 26, i8ii. 
Mary Ann, b. October 23, 1813. 
^William, b. January 26, 1816. 
Esther Jane, b, September 25, 1818. 
Sarah Ann, b. June 27, 1821. 
Lewis C, b. March 12, 1824. 
John H., b. June 14, 1826. 

THIRD FAMII^Y. 

♦William Van Surdam and Mary E. Thorp. 

Birth. 
Charles Arthur, b. January 14, 1850. 

Marriages. 
Peter Van Surdam and Nancy Vaughn, Aug. 17, 1S05 
Hannah and John F. Hill, Apr. 15, 1828 
Henry and Sylvia M. House, Oct. 30, 1S34 
♦William and Nancy E. Bean, June 10, 1841 
nVilliam and Mary E. Thorp, Dec. 30, 1848 
Mary Ann and George Williams, Aug. 25, 1843 
Sarah Ann and Lyman Milliman, June 30, 1844 
Peter Lyman and Marcia A. Manning, Jan. 17, 1846. 
Lewis L. and Adeline Porter, May 14, 1848. 
Esther Jane and William Goodspeed, May 14, 1848 
John H. and Harriet E. Buel, Oct. 24, 1850. 



♦Ancestry of Charles Arthur Surdam. 
Mr. C. A. Surdam also says •. 



56 LA WRENCE 

My earliest recollections are connected with 
Hoosick, where my father and one or two of his 
brothers lived. I also remember a visit at our home 
in Oswego County of a Younglove, who, father said, 
was a second cousin, if my memory serves me, and I 
have understood from an uncle who lived at Biner- 
hamton that the Rev. C. M. Surdam was a cousin, 
but at what distance I do not know. 

The " Hoosick branch " has scattered some- 
what through New York State and probably else- 
where, but a large proportion of them have re- 
mained in the vicinity of Hoosick Falls. A few 
years ago there was, at that place, a full military 
band of thirty pieces, all Surdams. Some mem- 
bers of the family and others who married into 
the family have become quite prominent, among 
them being David Chase and Younglove Surdam, 
the latter of whom aspired to be governor of the 
State, but failed to get the nomination. 

Morgan removed to New York city and en- 
gaged in business, and was living there when his 
son (Rev.) C. M. was born. There was also a 
firm of Surdam & White, manufacturers of stere- 
oscopes and graphoscopes, on Broadway about 
forty years ago, but they probably were from 
Salisbury. There was also a John Suydam in 
New York who was a relative of the Surdams. 
He had a store on Broadway and lived on Second 



LA WRENCE 57 

avenue. I am quite sure my father said he had 
a consin John who went to New York. 

From the Harpendiugs, who were connected 
by marriage to the Kronkhite Surdams, came 
the farm from which the Marble Collegiate 
Church in New York draws its vast income. 

My first information in regard to the Hoosick 
branch — the descendants of Peter Surdam — was 
received from the Rev. Father Winters, A. B., 
A. M., M D., of New York. His order of priest 
was received through the old Roman Catholic 
succession in Holland. 

Educated for the ministry and for the prac- 
tice of medicine, he is devoting his life to mis- 
sionary work. His mother was Miriam Surdam, 
a daughter of Anthony, Jr., and a granddaughter 
of Peter. In a recent letter to me he said : 

In speaking of my dear mother please say she 
had a young heart, which could be summed up in 
the following two verses : 

" She could not estimate her age by round of sea- 
sons flown, 

For life may not be fully told by years and 
months by-gone ; 

The heart ^s the truest register, and when the 
heart is young 

It matters not how many years their changeful 
chimes have rung. 

" She lived and died as young as she had ever 
been ; 



58 LA WRENCE 

Young, in a simple faith in God ; young, in her 

love to men ; 
Young, in her zeal for all good works ; young, in 

good service given ; 
Young, in her love for this fair earth ; young, in 

her hopes of heaven." 

The bonds of affection that existed between my 
mother and myself I have seldom seen in this cold 
world in parents and child. As has been said, it was 
the lovely confidence of mind with mind, — that sub- 
tle inner spiritual bond which no science can ana- 
lyze, and which is so much closer and stronger than 
the material, and knits immortal sou Is together when 
bodies decay. 

His unbounded affection for hi.« mother is 
shown in the following extract from a letter : 

New York, June 12th, 1907. 
The Ballston Spa Centennial Association, 
Ballston vSpa, N. Y. 
Dear Friends : 

It is my great pleasure to acknowledge with 
thanks the receipt of your Home-Coming Committee's 
invitation to be present at the celebration commenc- 
ing on the 22nd inst. 

You write that you believe it will be a profit to 
me " to visit once more the last resting place of dear 
ones." Yes, it certainly is the last resting place of 
my loved ones ; a noble Christian father, William 
Winters, Esq., who entered Paradise years ago, and a 
dear, sweet, loving mother, Mrs. Miriam Winters, nee 
Suydam, whom I laid beside him two years ago ; she 
was more than a mother to me — she was an angel ; 





REV. FATHER WINTERS AND HIS MOTHER 

See Pag* 57 



LAWRENCE 59 

for during the last year of her life she seemed in- 
spired by Heaven. 

Ours was a perfect companionship, and in it we 
found comfort, help and great happiness. Her voice 
was the sweetest music my ears have ever heard. I 
am reminded of the Blessed Damozel in Rossetti's 
poem who was leaning out over the towers of Heav- 
en, and there were the trees blossoming by the River 
of Life and the Crystal Sea. There were the glorv, 
the harps, the crowns ; there was the beatific vision ; 
but her eyes were bent earthward, and she was wait- 
ing, waiting for the companion of her soul, waiting 
for a friend. 

His views of the Surdam ancestr}^ which 
agree with those of the Rev. J. How^ard Suydam, 
are given in the same letter : 

It might be as well for me to give some Geneal- 
ogical Information at this time as I am about to have 
the remains of my great-great-grandfather, Pieter 
Suydam, who died in 1801, brought to Ballston Spa 
for final interment. He, as well as all the Suydams, 
irrespective of orthography, was the descendant of 
Hendrick Rycken, who came to this country in 1663. 
From Holland, the Van Ryckens are traced to a no- 
ble German family, whose members lived in Lower 
Saxony. Hans and Melchior Van Rycken were Cru- 
saders in the first Holy Land expedition in 1069. The 
American branch descended from Melchior. The 
American Ryckens adopted the name of Van Suy- 
dam in 1701. The progenitor of the American branch 
of the Winters family was Peter de Winter, who came 
from Holland prior to 1639 ^^^^ conducted a business 
near what is now Wall street, New York city. The 



60 LA WRENCE 

family is traced to a patrician Italian family in Vi- 
enna by the name of Inverno, first mentioned in the 
ninth century. 

I shall not be able to be with you, but as a Cath- 
olic Priest I shall pray that your labors may merit 
the blessing of Heaven. 

Faithfully and fraternally yours, 

Frumknte WiIvLiam Winters, 

Box 215, New York city. 

Andrew, the second son of Lawrence Sur- 
dam, was born about 1725-6 at Great Barring- 
ton, and was only five or six years of age when 
his father died. As stated before he was brought 
up at Salisbury. 

August 14, 1 75 1, he married Margaret 
White, a sister of Jane, who was the wife of his 
uncle Samuel. We have no record of his family 
except that he had a son William, a grandson 
Adoniram, and a great-grandson William Sur- 
dam of Canaan, Conn. (See page 37.) He died 
in 1809 (see page 32). His descendants seem to 
have spelled the name Sardam. 

Tunis I St, the third son of Lawrence Sur- 
dam, was born at Great Harrington about 1728. 
We find no record of his marriage, but his wife's 
name was Jane — probably Jane Dutcher. His 
whole career is to us a blank — that is, we have 
not even a tradition to show what kind of a man 



LA WRENCE 61 

he was, whether or not he was a churchman, or 
interested in pubhc affairs ; but in the absence of 
any such evidence either for or against him, and 
judging from what we know of his ancestry and 
of his family, we may reasonably conclude that 
he was above the average, a successful man, a 
good citizen, and a faithful husband and father. 

He died when about eighty years of age, at 
his home in Salisbury. He also had a farm at 
Mount Washington, where he no doubt had spent 
a part of his life. 

His will (see page 33) was filed and recorded 
February 28, 1808, but there is no record of an 
accounting or settlement of the estate. 

Tunis and Jane had nine children, all of 
whom except one survived him. His widow no 
doubt went to live with her eldest son, Peter, at 
Mount Washington, but we have no record of 
that or of her death. 



DESCENDANTS OF TUNIS SURDAM 



Peter, the eldest son, was born December 7, 
1 76 1. " He lived and died at Mount Washing- 
ton." The record of his death and that of his 
mother, also of the births and marriages in his 
family, were probably lost when the town clerk's 
records were destroyed in 1850. 

He had twelve children, among whom were 
Ira, one named Edward, and Daniel, the father 
of Julia Surdam Ayers, and five others. (See 
page 38.) 

James Surdam, of Norfolk, Conn., is a 
grandson of Peter, a son of Hiram, a cousin of 
Mrs. Ayers, and a nephew of Ira. 



Ira, born October 15, 1800, married Persis 
Keyes, a step-daughter of Lydia Surdam Keyes, 
and removed in 1842 from Cortland County, N. 
Y., to Potter County, Pa., where he died June 
22, 1874. His wife died August 19, 1867. They 
had a family of twelve children : 

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TUNIS 63 

Cyrena, married David Sunderland of Sunderland, 

Pa,, and died January, iS6i. 
Francis, killed at Cold Harbor, Va. 
Lydia, d. in 1850. 
Mary. 
Lucy, m. Elias Kleckler, Savonia, N. Y., and died 

August, 1S92. 
Rosetta, m. Alfred Tubbs, Neleigh, Neb., and died 

November, 1906. 
Thomas, b. July 26, 1836. 
Cynthia, b. February, 1846, m. W. I. Dickens, Sun- 

derlandville. Pa. 
Sarah, b. 1840, m. Nelson Chaffee, Sunderlandville, 

Pa. 
Emily, b. 1843, m. John Montague, Westfield, Pa., d. 

1899. 
Lizzie, b. February, 1846, m. E. S. Worden, Ulysses, 

Pa. 
Melville, b. May 5, 1852, m. Rosa Youngs, and lives 

at Sunderlandville, Pa. 

Ira Surdam and wife also had grandchildren: 

Eugene Sunderland, Lyman, Lyman Co., Neb. 
Lucien Sunderland. Saskatchewan, Canada. 
Minnie Sunderland Rosecrans, Dorsey, Holt Co., 

Neb. 
Gertrude Klecker, Savonia, N. Y. 
Cora Klecker, Savonia, N. Y. 
Fred Klecker, Savonia, N. Y. 
Frank Klecker, Bath, N. Y. 
Elmer Klecker, Bath, N. Y. 
Nora Chaffee Covel, Sunderlandville, Pa. 
Flora Carriel Grant, Sunderlandville, Pa. 
Rosalie Tubbs, Neleigh, Neb. 



64 TUNIS 

Gordon Surdam, b. May 4, 1880. 

Kdith Surdam Davis, b. September 18S1. 

lyOttie Surdam, born June 12, 1896. 

Eleanor Surdam, first daughter of Tunis, 
was born August 4, 1763, and died when fourteen 
years of age. 

Christina, second daughter, was born Aug. 
25, 1765, and was married Nov^ember 26, 1789, to 
Benjamin Harrison. We know nothing more of 
her or her posterity. 

Hannah, third daughter, born July 9, 1768, 
it is believed married a Mr. Russell. H. S. Akins 
remembers that a cousin or some near relative 
by that name visited grandfather's about 1834, 
and Matilda Freeman Gates says there were oth- 
er cousins, one of whom married the Rev. D. P. 
Kidder, of Sunday-school-book fame, and one 
became Mrs. Webb of Washington. 

Lydia, fourth daughter, born February 1, 
1 77 1, was married in 18 16 to Francis Keyes, a 
widower with three daughters, Persis, Thankful 
and Lucy. They lived near Marathon, N. Y. 
Persis became the wife of Ira Surdam (page 62) , 
Thankful married Jonathan Nichols, and Lucy 
married Jerry Smith, the father of Mrs. Martha 
L. Bradt, who, with her husband Henry and 
their children, resides at Hunts Corners, N. Y. 
Lydia and her husband, with their son-in-law, 



JANE 65 

Ira Surdam, removed in 1842 to Hector, Potter 
Co., Pa., where Lydia died at eighty-two years 
of age and her husband at eighty. They had no 
children. 



JANE SURDAM PERRY 



Jane Surdam, fifth daughter of Tunis, born 
January i8, 1774, married Peter Perry in 1798 
or 1799 at Greene, Chenango Co., N. Y. David 
Fitch and his wife Sally had settled in Greene 
prior to that time, and Jane Surdam had accom- 
panied her sister Sally to the '* New Country." 
Peter Perry and two of his brothers soon after 
removed from Egremont, Mass., to Bainbridge, 
N. Y. Peter finally went to Greene, where he 
met Jane and they were married. 

They removed from Greene to Cincinnatus 
(now Marathon) in 1802, and in 1821 to the old 
homestead in the town of Richford, where they 
spent their days. 

Peter Perry was a son of John Perry, who 
purchased land in Egremont, Mass., and settled 
there in 1759, as shown by the following taken 
from the records in the recorder's ofiBce in Great 
Barrington, Mass.: 

The Record of John Perry's Land, Septr. ye 
2ist, 1764. 

66 



JANE 67 

This is John Perry's survey, surveyed April ye 
17th day, A. D., 1759, viz, Beginning at the North- 
west corner bounded North on the Highway, 

and West on a highway, South on Samuel Young, 
and East on John Hollenbeck. 

Surveyed by me, John Williams, Surveyor. 

Jonah Westover, } Comm'tee to lay 
Josiah Loomis, \ out land. 

Imployed by John Pop-kne-hon-nuk &c, Indians and 

owners of Stockbridge, County of Hampshire, and 

Province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England. 

John Perry was born December 19, 1720. He 
married Jerusha and had thirteen child- 
ren, of whom the eleventh, Peter, married Jane 
Surdam, daughter of Tunis Sardam of Salisburj', 
Conn. He (John Perry) died in 1802. 

If the Perry ancestors w^ere those who spelled 
their name Perre and Pier, which is probable, 
they were Huguenots w^ho settled at Kingston in 
1686. 

Jane Surdam and Peter Perry had children : 
Norman, Luther, Eleanor, Jane and Gurdon M. 

Norman Perry married Orpha Patridge and 
had children : 

Oliver N., married Rebecca G. Van Syckle, 
and had children — Alice, m. Boan Hoagland; 
and Edith, m. Irving Maxwell. 

Lewas, enlisted in the 85th N. Y. Regiment ; 
died in Salisbury (N. C.) rebel prison. 



68 JANE 

Alice, married Sidney Smith, and had child- 
ren, but do not know how many or their 
names. The last heard from her she resided 
in New York city. 

Luther Perry married Maria Quimby of 
Caroline, Tompkins Co., N. Y. They lived and 
died in the old homstead between Richford and 
Speedsville, N. Y. They had children, Alonzo, 
William, Samuel F., R. Jane, Francis Gurdon, 
Daniel Meade, Edwin A., George M., and Oscar. 

Alonzo, born March 23, 1830, enlisted in the 
50th N. Y. Regiment and served throughout 
the Rebellion. He married Jane, daughter 
of William Tarbox, and died in 1898. They 
had one son who died in infancy. 

William, born May 2, 1832, died at the age of 
seventeen. 

Samuel F., enlisted in the 137th N. Y. Vols., 
was taken prisoner at the battle of Gettys- 
burg, and died September 8, 1863, of disease 
contracted in Libby prison, Richmond, Va. 
He married Eliza L. , daughter of the Rev. 
Ransom Gates, and had children Ransom J. 
and Lafayette. Ransom is a practicing phys- 
ician at Cortland, N. Y. ; he m. Lottie Dee- 
kin, and they have children Genevieve, 
Beatrice and Ransom. Lafayette is agent 



JANE 69 

for the D. & H. C. Co. at Ticonderoga, N. 
Y. ; he m. Cora E. Baldwin of Ticonderoga, 
and they have children Olive Baldwin, Ruth 
Allen and Allen Baldwin. 

R. Jane Perry died when seven years of age. 

Francis Gurdon Perry was for many years a 
teacher of vocal and instrumental music. He 
m. first, Jane E. Turner, and had children. 
His second wife was Ellen Blinn. He died 
in January, 1905. 

Daniel Meade Perry, born June 25, 1843, en- 
listed September 22, 1861, for three years or 
during the war of the Rebellion ; promoted 
to third sergeant and assigned to Co. E, 76th 
Regiment N. Y. Vols., Second Brigade, First 
Division, First Army Corps, Army of the 
Potomac ; participated in the battle of Rap- 
pahannock Station, Va. , August 22-24, 1862, 
the battle of Warreuton Sulphur Springs, 
Va. , August 26, 1862, and was acting first 
lieutenant at the battle of Groveton (second 
battle of Bull Run), August 28, 1862, where 
he received a severe gunshot wound in the 
left thigh. He remained on the battlefield, 
a prisoner, until September 5 without food 
or medical attention, when he was removed 
under a flag of truce to Georgetown College 



70 JANE 

Hospital, Georgetown, D. C, from which he 
was discharged on account of total disability, 
the result of said wound, January 31, 1863. 
He was educated at the Cortland Academy, 
Cortland, N. Y. , and was graduated from 
the Eastman Business College, Poughkeep- 
sie, N. Y., July 2, 1864, and is by profession 
an accountant. January 28, 1868, he re- 
moved to New Jersey ; married, September 
12, 1 87 1, Rachel Blair Kelsey, cousin of 
Henry C. Kelsey, late Secretary of State of 
New Jersey, and grand-niece of the late John 
I. Blair of Blairstown, N. J. He is a mem- 
ber of the following societies : Liberty Coun- 
cil, No. 15, O. U. A. M.; The Washington 
Athletic Association ; Pohatcong Council, 
No. 1 177, Royal Arcanum, of which he is 
secretary ; Mansfield Lodge, No. 36, A. F. 
& A. M.; Temple Chapter, No. 12, Royal 
Arch Masons ; DeMolay Commandery, No. 
6, Knights Templar ; Past Commander of 
John F. Reynolds Post, No. 66, G. A. R., 
and late aide-decamp on the staff of the 
commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of 
the Republic. Politically, a Republican, hav- 
ing voted for all the Republican candidates 
from Abraham Lincoln to William H. Taft. 
He was a bookkeeper for the Oxford Iron 



JANE 71 

Co., Oxford, N. J., from 1868 to 1886 ; vis- 
ited England on a tour for his health in the 
summer of 1886, and after a vacation of one 
year, engaged with the Needham Piano and 
Organ Co. as accountant, and was until Jan- 
uary 25, 1905, in their employment. His 
residence is 123 Belvidere avenue, Washing- 
ton, N. J. He has one daughter, Leola 
Blair. 

Edwin A. Perry, married Lucy Smith, adopted 
daughter of William Collins and Sarah Lowe 
Collins of Richford, N. Y. Children, Flor- 
ence Helene and Adarage. Florence m. John 
Williamson, and they live at Harford, N. Y. 

George M. Perry died when two years old, 

Oscar Perry died in infancy. 

Eleanor Perry, born Julj^ 3, 1807, ^i^^ June 
30, 1885. She married Rounesville Briggs and 
had one daughter, Mary, who married Amos 
Johnson. Thej^ all lived and died in Richford. 

Jane Perry, born June i, 181 1, died Au- 
gust 7, 1895 ; married Samuel Tarbox, son of 
Benjamin Tarbox and Huldah Nichols of Rhode 
Island. They lived on Richford Hill about one- 
half mile southeast from the Daniel Surdam 
homestead. In 1856 they removed to Potter Co., 



72 JANE 

Pa. They had children, Willis, Perry, Orpha 
M., Caleb and George. 

Willis Tarbox, born Jan. 30, 1838, andRoseltha 
Shutt, born November 9, 1851, daughter of 
John Shutt and Lovicie Kimble of Bingham, 
Pa., were married July 16, 1871, and had 
children, Huldah, I^ydia and Clinton. Hul- 
dah, b. January 20, 1872, was m. April 8, 
1896, to Reuben N. Howe, son of Isaac 
Howe and Lucy Eggleston of Bingham, Pa. ; 
they have one child, lyUcy Roseltha, b. Jan- 
uary 27, 1898. Lydia, born September 24, 
1878, and Grant Thompson, born June 9, 
1873, were married November 28, 1892, and 
have children, Flossie, b. July 23, 1895, Su- 
sie, b. June 5, 1898, Orpha, b. October 23, 
1900, and Louise, b. August 4, 1902. Clin- 
ton, b. November 27, 1874, was married 
February 23, 1894, to Millie, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Westfield, of Newark 
Valley, N. Y. ; they live at Ulysses, Pa., 
and have three children, Claud, b. December 
27, 1896, Ina, b. March 7, 1898, and Ruth, 
July 29, 1902. 

S. Perry Tarbox, born September 14, 1840, 
was married April 15, i860, to Jane E. Gra- 
ham, born January 9, 1843. They live at 
Ulysses, Pa., and have four children, Marion 



JANE 73 

G., b. March 13, 1862. John M., b. July 
24, 1865, d. November 14, 1865. Sylvia J., 
b. November i, 1866, and Grant ly., b. Jan- 
uary 29, 1 87 1. Sylvia was married Novem- 
ber 19, 1884, to Martin, son of Thomas Ham- 
ilton and Emeline Gridley, of Ulysses ; they 
have had three children: Leon, b. June 15, 
1 89 1, d. October 15, 189 1 ; Harland, b. Jan- 
uary 4, 1893, ^^^ Emma, March 28, 1898. 
Grant mas married June 7, 1897, to Maud, 
daughter of Adelbert and Rose Hawley of 
Potterbrook, Pa., and they have one child, 
Lillian, born February 28, 1898; they live 
at Ulysses. 

Orpha M. Tarbox, born September 23, 1842, 
was married November 13, 1864, to A. A. 
Johnson, son of Nicholas Johnson and Polly 
Huntly of Richford, N. Y. They live at 
Ulysses. They have had three children, S. 
Wallace, Frank A., and Jennie M. Wallace, 
b. February 26, 1866, was married February 
10, 1889, to Mary, daughter of Frank West- 
fall and Lurana Stevens of Newark Valley, 
N. Y. ; children, Jennie, b. June 21, 1893, 
and Floyd b, January 16, 1898, d. February 
22, 1898. Frank, born September 16, 1868, 
m. November 20, 1897, Electa, daughter of 
Frederick Ackerman and Rowena Crandal of 



74 JANE 

Honeoye, Pa.; they have three children, 
Amos F., b. September lo, 1899, Edith R., 
b. February i, 1901, and Asa J., b. July 17, 
1902. 

Caleb Tarbox, born August 25, 1845, died Feb- 
ruary 26, 1856. 

George Tarbox, born September 26, 1851, mar- 
ried Abbie, daughter of Warren Boom and 
Hannah Cooper of Chatham, Pa. They live 
at Bingham, and have three children, Anna, 
b. May 29, 1881, Lena Belle, b. August 28, 
1885, and Ernie, b. September 22, 1891 ; 
Lena was m. February 11, 1906, to Albert 
Segar of Whitesville, N. Y. 

Gurdon M. Perry, born January 16, 1817, 
married in June, 1838, Harriet Crum, born May 
4, 1815, in Candor, N. Y. They had two chil- 
dren, Lyman C. and. Nathaniel T. Gurdon M. 
Perry died January 13, 1863. Harriet Crum 
Perry died July 11, 1895. 

Lyman C, Perry, b. August 3, 1842, in Can- 
dor, N. Y., was married July 3, 1868, to Ja- 
nette E. Merrick, b. April 24, 1850, of Bing- 
ham, Potter Co., Pa., and had two children, 
Hettie M. and Kate M. He died May 14, 
1895. His wife died April 24, 1902. Het- 
tie M., b. August 5, 187 1, in Ulysses, Pa., 



JANE 75 

m. Aurelius C. White of Independence, Al- 
legany County, N. Y., October 17, 1891 ; 
had one child, Layman E. White, b. Decem- 
ber 21, 1892, d. September 3, 1893. Kate 
M., born January 15, 1880, at Ulysses, Pa., 
is unmarried. 

Nathaniel T. Perry, b. November 9, 1846, in 
Candor, N. Y., married Susan Gridley of 
Bingham, Pa. He died February 12, 1874. 
They had no children. 



DANIEL SURDAM 



Daniel was the second son of Tunis and Jane 
Sardam, 

The following interesting and well-written 
history of Daniel and his family was compiled by 
Matilda Freeman Gates from incidents related 
to her by her mother, Emily, and her grand- 
mother, Letty, and was read by her sister, Har- 
riet Freeman Shaw, at the first Surdam family 
reunion, August 24, 1900: 

Our grandfather, Daniel Surdam, was born in 
Connecticut June 6th, 1777, less than a year after the 
declaration of American independence ; one of three 
brothers and six sisters. Our grandmother, Letty 
Slater, first saw the light on New Year's Day of 1781. 
We know little of her family except that she had one 
sister, Mrs. Wheeler, who afterward lived at Athens 
on the Hudson, and I think their widowed mother 
lived with her. There were cousins in Connecticut, 
one of whom married the Rev. D. P. Kidder of S. S. 
book fame, and one became Mrs. Webb of Washing- 
ton. 

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23rd, 1798, a few days before the bride reached 
her eighteenth birthday. There is a family legend 
that they went across the line into New York State 
for the ceremony, to avoid being "published," ac- 
cording to Connecticut laws and customs. They 
made their home in Salisbury, and there six child- 
ren were born to them — Eliza, Jerusha, Jane Butch- 
er, Edward William, Letty Maria, and Martha Em- 
ily. 

"When the youngest of these was a year and a 
half old, probably in the spring of 1813, they moved 
into New York, living in Vernon, Oneida County, 
and Scipio, Cayuga County. A second son, Daniel 
Orville, was born at Vernon in February, 1814. 

In some of these years grandfather went into the 
army — was probably drafted; but the war closed and 
he was released without notable service. 

The next move was to Marathon, a mile or more 
above the village, on the west side of the river. In 
these western homes they had visits from Indians ; 
though sometimes frightened they were not harmed. 
A third son, Charles Orson, was here added to the 
family, November 22, 1817. 

But times were hard; the Surdam patrimony had 
long ago disappeared ; and further on there was laud 
to be had for the clearing, or little more. So they 
gathered up their few belongings and with the five 
younger children came to the wilderness on Richford 
Hill ; the three older daughters remaining behind 
to teach and spin. The youngest child was then two 
and a half years old, which brings us to the spring of 
1821. They came in sleighs, but the snow in the val- 
leys was melting, and at what is now Harford Mills 
they crossed on the ice, with the water running over 



78 DANIEL 

it. There was some question of safety, but they es- 
caped with slight wetting. They stopped that night 
at Uncle David Fitch's, but next day the mother and 
her four little ones went to Uncle Perry's, below Pad- 
lock, till a cabin could be built on the new land. 
This cabin stood near the south border, by the little 
brook at the foot of the hill, was built of green logs 
cut on the spot, had a partial floor of split logs, and 
a stone fireplace and chimney. Later, when the old- 
er girls were coming for a visit, the mother and Ed- 
w^ard carried flat stones to make a floor about the 
fireplace. 

They soon obtained a cow, put a bell on her and 
turned her into the woods. When the children (Em- 
ily and Orville) went for her, " they let no grass 
grow under their feet," and almost held their breath 
for fear of bears and wolves, but never saw anything 
worse than stray deer. Soon the clearing was en- 
larged, others joined it, a road was laid out parallel 
with their north line, a fine spring discovered, not 
far from it a frame house of three rooms and a loft 
was built, an apple orchard set out on the western 
slope, a good barn built, and other indications of 
thrift appeared. The rugged father improved his 
land and rejoiced in the labor of his hands ; the 
mother, somewhat broken in health, reared her fam- 
ily to honor and usefulness, and amid all her hard- 
ships and disappointments never lost her dignity. 
Her girls were called by their neighbors /r^«^/ they 
were at least self-respecting. 

Around that old home memories of the grand- 
children cluster to-day. The huge fireplace with its 
backlog and andirons before and over which all the 
cooking was done, except the baking in the brick 



DANIEL 79 

oven by its side; the blue-curtained bed, the little por- 
traits on the wall of the spare room, the apple-par- 
ings by the firelight, and the strings of apples hung 
across the timbers overhead. There were never such 
gillyflowers and pound apples as grew in grandpa's 
orchard, while the cherries and currants, the caraway 
and roses in the well-kept garden had a taste and a 
fragrance all their own. The place I remember well, 
as I lived there several weeks when seven or eight 
years old. 

And we must not forget ** Major," the first 
horse owned on the premises and the last, but not 
the only one, who, when he was three years old, 
walked in at the open door and stood before the 
clock, which was a mirror as well, whether to learn 
the time of day or to admire his coat, he did not say, 
but promptly departed at grandmother's command. 

Twice grandmother went to visit eastern friends, 
once at least being driven by her eldest son, Edward, 
in a cutter, each time receiving gifts that, though 
slight, added to the comfort of the pioneer home. 
Once there were two sperm candles, which were 
burned only on special occasions, such as weddings 
and so forth. A remnant of one, brown with age, 
hung in the pantry, and in later years came into my 
possession. 

About 1850 the house was enlarged to five rooms 
on the first floor, plastered, the fireplace torn out 
and a cookstove introduced. In this house the couple, 
now grown old, lived till it was thought best for 
them to go to their children. 

Grandfather died February 9th, 1859 ; grand- 
mother, April 24th, i860. She had on coming to 
Richford connected herself, probably by letter, with 



80 DANIEL 

the Congregational church in the village; though she 
rarely attended the services, the visits of her pastor, 
the Rev, D. S. Morse, cheered her retired life, and 
he came to the marriage of some of the children. 

It is not known that grandfather was connected 
with any church till in his old age one was started 
on the hill. The eight children all lived to maturi- 
ty, all but three over sixty-five years, four over sev- 
enty, three over seventy-five, and one over eighty. 

Of the forty-one grandchildren twenty-two are 
now living, though not more than one or two have 
attained three-score and ten years, none are less than 
fifty. There are also about forty-four great-grand- 
children, twenty-two of the fifth generation, and one 
of the sixth. 

Very imperfectly prepared by 

Matii^da J. F. Gates. 

Several of the ''cousins" remember some- 
thing of the same history as told by their par- 
ents and grandparents, and have contributed a 
few items not mentioned by Mrs. Gates. H. S. 
Akins remembers the log house which was their 
first home in Richford : 

In the log house they used split logs for the 
floor, hewed on the split side. To go up into the 
chamber they had a ladder built of round poles with 
the bark on. The fireplace was a stone wall built 
entirely across one end of the house, with a stick- 
and-mud chimney through the roof to let the smoke 
out. They could build a fire that would last several 
days burning day and night. 

He also is sure that they lived in Onondaga 



DANIEL 81 

County before they moved to Virgil. His mother 
spoke many times of having lived there. 

The chamber in the log house was so well 
ventilated that they often had to shake snow from 
the bedclothes in the morning. 

At Vernon they lived on the stage road be- 
tween Albany and Buffalo (old Genesee turn- 
pike), when freight was hauled in wagons the en- 
tire distance, before the Erie Canal was built, or 
railroads anywhere were even dreamed of. 

In Oneida, Onondaga and Seneca counties 
they were in the midst of the remnants of the 
" Five Nations," or tribes of Indians — the Mo- 
hawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Senecas and Cayu- 
gas, but they had been "subdued" by their 
white brethren and were harmless. They, like 
most Indians, were fond of rum, and in winter it 
was sport for them to go to town, indulge freely 
and race horses on their way home. Sometimes 
a half-dozen, all standing, would ride on one sled 
or jumper or pung, and sing after the Indian 
fashion. Sometimes they would get cross, and 
when grandmother on one occasion drove one out 
of her house with a broomstick he said, " I go 
home get my gun " — but he didn't. 

While at Vernon grandfather was drafted — 
war of 1812, — served two weeks at Sacketts Har- 
bor, hired a substitute and returned home. 

But none of us seem to have heard what 



82 DANIEL 

grandfather did or how he supported his family 
from the time he left Salisbury — 1814 — to the 
time he settled on Richford Hill, 1821. And how 
the children obtained enough education to teach 
school, which they all did except Daniel Orville, 
seems a mystery, but probably by " self help" 
and helping each other ; besides the standard of 
requirements was not high. There were no free 
schools. Teachers were paid by a " rate bill " — 
that is each pupil paid according to the number 
of days' attendance at school. No steel pens ; 
teachers made quill pens and ** set" the copies 
for the children. Not many books, but the 
"three Rs " at least were quite thoroughly 
taught. 

When the family left Salisbury Eliza was 
fourteen years of age, Jerusha eleven, Jane nine, 
Edward seven, Letty four, and Emily two. When 
they moved into the wilderness at Richford Eliza, 
aged twenty-one, and Jerusha, eighteen, were 
self-supporting, and probably remained in Mara- 
thon, then Virgil, and vicinity, and taught school 
summers and spun woolen yarn and sewed win- 
ters, and no doubt assisted in supporting their 
father's family. The other daughters as they 
grew up followed the same vocations, and all 
seem to have enjoyed good health except Jane. 

What Daniel's financial condition was when 



DANIEL 83 

he left Salisbury can only be conjectured. Eliza 
Fitch Clark understood that Tunis left him sev- 
eral thousand dollars and that he lost nearly all 
of it through drink (see page 40). This estimate 
is evidently very much too high ; but his father 
left him by will one-half of his Salisbury farm 
and buildings and so forth (see page 34), and he 
no doubt had other property — enough to have 
made him a good home. 

. Whether intemperance had anything to do 
with it or not, he seems to have traveled a down- 
hill road from prosperity to poverty, or to what 
in these days we w^ould call poverty. At one 
time he built or bought a w^oolen mill which was 
run by horse power, and lost money. While at 
Vernon or Scipio he was riding on horseback — 
perhaps had been to town and was a little reck- 
less — and struck his foot against a stump, break- 
ing his leg. This laid him on his back for six 
weeks and disabled him for months. When liv- 
ing in Virgil a tree fell upon their only cow. 

After they had gone to Richford Hill and 
had spent some time in getting settled, their title 
w^as found to be defective, and they were obliged 
to " move on " — to lands adjoining and a little 
to the northwest of where they first located. 

Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren 
can never fuUv understand the conditions or real- 



84 DANIEL 

ize how much courage it required to face the sit- 
uation and, ten years after middle life, to begin 
anew the making of a home for a large family. 
Six children from three to sixteen years of age 
were with them and had to be fed and clothed ; 
but those were the days — 

" When girls wore woolen dresses 
And boys wore pants of tow." 

Their living must have been extremely plain, but 
quite as healthful as modern indulgences. A 
common dish was " hulled" corn. 

Their calf was kept through its first winter 
on browse and johnny-cake. Primitive settlers 
"wintered" their stock, if they had any, on 
cornstalks, straw and browse. There was very 
little, if any, hay. 

The first season they could not have raised 
anything unless they cut out the " underbrush" 
and small trees and girdled the large trees ; then 
they might have raised a little corn. 

When clearing land, the trees were felled in 
summer and burned in the fall. The ashes were 
carefully preserved and in winter leached, and 
the lye was boiled in large iron kettles and made 
into potash. 

In the following spring the newly cleared 
land was planted to corn. An ax was struck into 
the ground an inch or two, the kernels dropped 



DANIEL 85 

into the opening and covered with the foot, quite 
the same as is done with corn-planters at this 
time. In a year or two the small tree roots de- 
cayed and the ground was scratched over with a 
wooden-toothed harrow and wheat was sown. 
All grain was cut with the sickle until about 
1840, when father (who at that time had a farm 
of his own) bought a cradle, the first one in the 
neighborhood. Grass was cut with the scythe 
and raked by hand, until the Civil War compelled 
the general use of horse rakes and mowing ma- 
chines. 

The potash (or "black salts") was ex- 
changed for groceries and other necessaries, but 
it was several years before the products of the 
farm supported the family. Grandfather and 
father worked by the day for other farmers, some- 
times three or four miles away, taking their pay 
in corn or wheat, which they usually carried 
home on their shoulders. Very little money 
passed through their hands, but in a humble way 
they prospered. Six of their eight children mar- 
ried, had good Uomes and raised families. 

Only once did death enter their home ; but 
the affliction of their youngest son, on w^hom 
they hoped to lean in their old age, was worse 
than death. 

The greater part of the last twenty years of 



86 DANIEL 

their lives they lived alone, but their son Edward 
was only about a mile away, and when anything 
went wrong he was ready and willing to assist 
them. Notwithstanding the hardships and de- 
privations of their earlier life they enjoyed the 
comforts and blessings of ripe old age. Daniel 
died aged eighty-three years and Letty in her 
eightieth year. 



ELIZA SURDAM AKINS 



[Contributed by H. S. Akins.] 

Eliza Surdam was born at Salisbur}^ Conn., 
October 2, 1799. She remained with the family 
until they removed to Richford, perhaps a little 
longer, but for a time she had a home at David 
Fitch's. In her younger days she was a seam- 
stress, and also a school-teacher. 

May 22, 1827, she married William Henry 
Akins, born March 4, 1804, the fourth son of 
Seth and Sarah Griswold Akins. They resided 
for about two years after their marriage at Belfast, 
Allegany Co., N. Y., where, in partnership with 
Eleazer Lyman, they carried on a cabinet-making 
and turning shop, then returned to Berkshire 
and built the house known as the *' red house " 
on the northwest corner of lot No. 380, Boston 
purchase, where they resided until a short time 
previous to the death of the mother of the family. 

William Henry Akins was a fine mechanic, 
and a prolific inventor and patentee. He made 

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88 ELIZA 

some of the finest earlier Morse instruments for 
magnetic telegraphy, and some improvements on 
them. He improved and extended the calendar 
clock from days to months and years and leap 
years, and invented some of the most essential 
parts of the sewing machine. He also invented 
the combination lock used on safes, which has 
stood the test of more than fifty years and still 
remains unpickable. 

In his later years he gave nearly all his at- 
tention to inventions and patents, but was not 
very successful financially, although some of his 
patents proved to be of great value ; other parties 
making fortunes out of them. 

William Henry and Eliza Akins had six 
children, Henry Seth, Emily, Zelia Eliza, War- 
ren, Daniel Martin, and Sarah Jane, all but one 
of whom, Warren, are living at the present time 
(1909), the average of their ages being seventy- 
seven years. Mrs Akins died January 1839. 

In 1842 Mr. Akins married for his second 
wife Catharine House, and they had one child, 
Mary Lisetta. They lived at Ithaca and Dryden, 
and later at Speedsville. William Henry died at 
Ovid, N. Y., January 3, 1877, and Catharine at 
Speedsville, December 30, 1904, aged eighty- 
eight 3'ears. 

Henry Seth Akins was born at Belfast, N. Y., 




HENRY SETH AKINS 

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ELIZA 89 

Junes, 1828. When the f- nily was broken up 
in February, 1839, he foc. J a home with his 
uncle, E. W. Surdam, fo. a few years, then 
went to the carpenter's trade, from that to 
millwright, sawyer, miller, and, perhaps, 
*' jack at all trades " — a mechanic without a 
name.* He served the government in the 
war of the Rebellion in the Construction 
Corps, Division of the Mississippi, and had 
an honorable discharge. June 26, 1867, he 



* Mr. Akiiis is too modest in his claims. He was 
very ingenious and an inventor of several implements 
and of improvements in machinery. He also assisted 
his father in studying out the combination lock and the 
calendar clock. The following is from a private letter 
written by him in 1902 : 

" I have learned in some way that you think my 
father was the inventor of the time lock so much used on 
money vaults. That is all right except one thing : it 
was myself instead of my father. My father invented 
the permutation lock and a patent was granted him for 
it ; and it was while I was making one of the locks for 
him that it occurred to me that the bolts could be drawn 
by clockwork inside the vault, and that it would be im- 
possible for anyone to open the vault until the time set 
for it had passed. I could have had the patent for it just 
as well as the other fellow who afterward invented and 
patented it. I understand he had $600 apiece royalty 
for the right to use them. How comforting in shaky old 
age to know such a valuable patent had been within such 
easy reach." 



90 ELIZA 

married Mrs. Emily A. Goodrich of Speeds- 
ville, widow of E. Goodrich, who lost his 
life at the battle of Spottsylvania Court- 
house, and a daughter of Hiram Humphrey 
of Speedsville, N. Y. ; she died August 9, 
1890. September 30, 1891, he married for 
his second wife Mrs. Alvira L. Hunt, widow 
of Daniel E. Hunt and daughter of Asahel 
Jewett of Richford, N. Y. 

Emily Akins was born in the town of Berkshire, 
N. Y., Dec. 14, 1829. At the breaking up 
of the family she went to live with the Sur- 
dam grandparents, but left there in the sum- 
mer of 1845 in consequence of the unfortun- 
ate mental condition of Uncle Charles. She 
lived in her father's family at Speedsville 
for about one year, one year in Buffalo, N. 
Y., a few years in Ithaca, and a few years in 
the family of her uncle, Lyman P. Akins, in 
Berkshire (West Creek), N. Y. She married 
George C. Gore of Sheshequin, Crawford 
Co., Pa. Mr. Gore died July 24, 1870, leav- 
ing Emily the step-mother of four children, 
Frank E. , Lizzie A., George B. and John F. 
John F. d. Feb. 28, 1886, and George B. Feb. 
22, 1909. She stayed with the children until 
they were all old enough to go for them- 
selves, and since that time she has for the 



ELIZA 91 

most part lived with friends and relatives, 
where she is always welcome. For some 
time she kept house for her nephew, Frank 
C. Baker at Speedsville and cared for her 
step-mother until her decease in 1904. 

Zelia Eliza Akins was born at Berkshire (West 
Creek) Sept. 6, 1831. At the breaking up of 
the family she was taken and cared for by 
her aunt Emily Freeman for two or three 
years. After that she was one of her father's 
family, the father having married a second 
wife. While living in Ithaca she became 
acquainted with Anthony Baker, born Octo- 
ber 28, 18 1 9, a farmer of Newfield, Tomp- 
kins Co., N. Y., son of William and Mary 
Baker, and married him December 18, 1856. 
They lived on their farm in Newfield until 
the death of Mr. Baker, which occurred De- 
cember 2, 1873. Eight children were born 
to them, William Amasa, Mary, Frank Cur- 
tis, Warren Akins, Olin M., Henry, Orlo An- 
thony, and Martha Emily. The Bakers lost 
their farm soon after the death of the father 
through the fraudulent transaction of a neigh- 
bor, and in consequence the family was brok- 
en up and scattered. Martha Emily and Or- 
lo, the youngest, were brought up in the 
family of their uncle, H. S. Akins, at 



92 ELIZA 

Speedsville. Amasa and Olin learned black- 
smithing. They married sisters, daughters 
of Smith WoodhuU of Newfield. They also 
bought the blacksmith shop of their father- 
in-law and carried on the business at that 
place. William Amasa, b. May 5, 1858, 
m. Nancy WoodhuU, daughter of Smith and 
Elvira WoodhuU of Ithaca ; they have one 
son, John Carlton, b. June 7, 1898. Mary, 
b. October 31, 1859, m. Robert Charles 
Akins, a third cousin, son of George H. and 
Eliza Akins of Berkshire, N. Y. ; two chil- 
dren were born to them, George Bert, No- 
vember 28, 1882, and Frank Baker, Novem- 
ber 29, 1888. The mother died at Ovid Cen- 
ter, N. Y., April 21, 1904. The following 
was taken from a local newspaper : 

Mrs. R. C. Akins, whose illness we have noted be- 
fore, passed away at an early hour last Thursday 
morning, after an illness of less than two weeks. 
Mrs. Akins was in the prime of life, only forty-four 
years of age, and her untimely death has brought 
sadness to many hearts. Her quiet, gentle life was 
the light of the home which is now sad and deso- 
late. She leaves besides her husband and two sons, 
her mother, six brothers and one sister, who were all 
present at the funeral, which was held at the home 
Saturday, conducted by Pastor Mahoney. She 
was buried at Sheldrake. The casket was covered 
with beautiful flowers, among which was a hand- 



ELIZA 93 

some piece from her son, a lovely wreath from Ovid 
Grange, carnations from the King's Daughters, and 
many more from friends in Ithaca and Auburn, all 
silently testifying their love for the departed. 

On the 8th of Februarj', 1905, George m. 
Mary Grace, daughter of James A. Kverhart, 
and they reside at Ovid Center ; they have 
one child, Helen Maria, b. December 28, 
1907. Frank Curtis, b. October 4, 1861, 
has not married. He lives at Speedsville. 
Warren Akins was born December 13, 1863; 
is a painter by trade and lives in Ithaca, N. 
Y. ; he m. Etta, daughter of J. C. and Gerald- 
ine Wilbur Everhart of Trumbulls Corners, 
N. Y., and they have four children, Joseph 
C, b. October 30, 1897; Walter A., December 
26, 1899; Mildred G., March 7, 1903, and 
Henry Surdam, August 24, 1906. Olin 
M.. b. December 22, 1865, lives in Ithaca; 
m. Mrs. Adda Grover, daughter of Smith 
and Elvira WoodhuU of Ithaca; they have 
two children, Richard Smith, b. June 28, 
1900, and Frederick Woodhull, b. October 
13, 1904; Mrs. Baker had one son by her 
first husband, Harry Alfred Grover, b. May 
26, 1894. Henry, b. October 22, 1868, is 
unmarried and lives in Ithaca. Orlo An- 
thony was born October 11, 1870; he m. Le- 
na Everhart, a sister of Warren's wife, and 



94 ELIZA 

they live at Watkins, N. Y. ; they have two 
children, Seth Everhart, b. Sept. 25, 1897, 
and Wilbur, b. August 20, 1904. Martha 
Emily, b. January 29, 1873, i^- William J. 
Everhart; they live at Watkins, N. Y. , and 
have one child, Floyd William, b. June 14, 
1904. 

Warren Akins was born September 28, 1833. 
After the death of his mother he had a home 
with the Freeman family at Harford Mills 
for a few months; after that with Jason 
Hawes of Triangle, Broome Co. , N. Y. He 
was a carpenter. By being thrown from a 
horse his skull was fractured, which pro- 
duced epileptic convulsions of which he died 
March 6, i860. 

Daniel Martin Akins, born August 5, 1835. 
When a little boy he lived with the Surdam 
grandparents, and afterward learned the car- 
penter's trade. He married Catharine R. 
Williams of Owego, N. Y. , and three child- 
ren were born to them, Henry W. , Catharine 
R., and Corinne. Catharine, the mother, 
died August 29, 1895. His second wife was 
Mrs. Hester A. Knox of Portland, Oregon. 
Martin moved to western Pennsylvania in 
the early oil times; made some money and 



ELIZA 95 

lost it. Afterward he lived in Dryden, N. 
Y., also in Maryland, Washington, D. C, 
and in Portland, which is his present home. 
He finds business as a builder. Henry W., 
b. March 5, 1861, m. Mattie Walker, a niece 
of Senator Pomeroy; he was a physician, and 
practiced for a while in San Diego, Cal., un- 
til his health failed; then he came East and 
died at the home of his sister at Mount Pis- 
gah, Md., September 29, 1890; the widow 
lives in Washington, D. C; they had no 
children. Catharine Reingeard, b. May 
30, 1865, m. Thomas Carpenter of Pisgah, 
Md.; they had three children, Harriet Ethel- 
dra, b. October 29, 1888, Myrtle Corinne, b. 
November 22, 1891, d. November 8, 1896, 
and Catharine Aiken, b. April 3, 1895; for 
her second husband she married Marcellus 
Bowie, and by him had three children, Heise 
Marcellus, b. August 18, 1899, d. November 
17, 1899, Myrtle Irene, b. April 20, 1901, 
and Henry Llewellyn, born July 30, 1902. 
Catharine R., the mother, died Mch. 6, 1906, 
at her home in Pisgah, and the funeral was 
held at the M. E. Church; the pallbearers 
were H. H. Bowie, A. R. Carpenter, G. M. 
Carpenter, J. T. DeLozier, A. B. Sullivan 
and J. T. Burgess. 



96 ELIZA 

In sad but loving remembrance of my dear mother, 
who departed this life March 6, 1906, 

There was an angel choir in heaven, 
But it was not quite complete; 

So God took my dear mother 
To fill the vacant seat. 

Farewell, mother, you have left me, 

Left me, yes. for evermore; 
But I hope to meet you, mother, 

On that bright and happy shore. 

By her daughter, KaTiE. 

Harriet Etheldra was married January 4, 
1904, to John W. Bowie of Pisgah, and has 
two children, Thomas Carpenter and Lillian 
May. Corinne Akins, born January 17, 
1875, died February 19, 1875. 

Sarah Jane Akins, born in Berkshire October 
31, 1837, was less than fifteen months old 
at the death of the mother. She was cared 
for one or two years by the Akins relatives, 
then was given to Aunt Sally Fitch (Sally, 
or Sarah, Surdam). Sarah remained with 
the Fitches a number of years and attended 
school winters and summers on Rich ford hill 
until changes in the Fitch family made it 
unpleasant for her. Then she went to her 
father's home in Ithaca. Since then she has, 
at different times, lived at Speedsville, Dry- 



ELIZA 97 

den, Syracuse, Shesheqiiin, Pa., Williams- 
port, Pa., Ithaca, Owego, Washington, D. 
C, Boston, and Morristown, N. J. At pres- 
ent her home is at Candor, N. Y. 



JERUSHA SURDAM WATTLES 



Jerusha Surdam was born in Salisbury, 
Conn., October 8, 1802. When her father's fam- 
ily removed to Richford she remained in Virgil, 
where she taught school and sewed, and where 
she became acquainted with Lathrop Wattles, 
whom she married in 1823. 

In 1883 Robert Wattles of Blue Island, 111., 
wrote a sketch of the genealogy of the Wattles 
family, in which he says, " I believe it is conced- 
ed that we are of Highland Scotch stock; that our 
name was originally Mc Wattles," and that the 
" Mc" was dropped by the children of one John 
Mc Wattles. The ship that brought the first Wat- 
tles from Scotland came into Norwich Landing, 
Conn., in 1652, about thirty years after the May- 
flower landed at Plymouth Rock. He further 
says: "I find that we are scattered from sea to 
sea and that our name has now almost become 
legion. I have only traced out the lineage of one 
man, my grandfather, for a hundred years and 

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JERUSHA 99 

find that he had nine children, fifty-three grand- 
children, and one hundred and five great-grand- 
children; and the fifth and sixth generations were 
so numerous that I decided to not investigate 
further." 

Mason Wattles was born in Connecticut in 
1725. He had two sons. Mason and Nathaniel. 
Nathaniel emigrated to Delaware Co., N. Y., in 
1784 with his wife and four children, the young- 
est three years old, traveling through a dense for- 
est for about one hundred miles by the aid of 
marked trees, there being no roads. They suf- 
fered many hardships and privations incident to 
settling in a new, timbered country, and it is said 
that the mother saw no white woman for three 
years after moving there. But they had means 
to do with and prospered, and the country filled 
up very fast with an industrious and enterprising 
people. 

In 1797 Mr. Wattles was elected to the legis- 
lature from Delaware County, and coming out of 
church one evening while in Albany he slipped 
and fell, striking his head on the stone step. Two 
days later he died, leaving a family of eight sons 
and one daughter. 

Colonel Mason Wattles, the sixth son of Na- 
thaniel, owned a large farm about two miles south 
from Hunts Corners on the road to I^isle. He 



100 JERUSHA 

was several times elected supervisor and in 1851 
was sheriff of Broome County. 

Jehiel, the second son of Nathaniel, married 
Phebe Lathrop, settled in the town of Virgil, 
Cortland Co., N. Y., and had three sons and two 
daughters. 

Lathrop, the second son of Jehiel, married 
Jerusha Surdam, and they had twelve children, 
eight of whom were born in Virgil and four in 
Caroline, to which place they removed in 1839. 

To provide for such a large family required 
economy and untiring industry, which char- 
acteristics, developed in early life, continued 
with the several members of the family. They 
not only prospered but enjoyed health and long 
life. They lived to see all their children grown 
to manhood and womanhood. The youngest at 
the time of the father's death was twenty-five. 
But now they are all gone except Hubert, and he 
alone has lived to the age of three-score years 
and ten. 

Lathrop died aged seventy-one and Jerusha 
at eighty-two, and they and six of their children, 
Eliza Jane, Chauncey, William, Daniel W., Carle- 
ton S. and Byron are buried in Maple Grove 
Cemetery in Caroline. 

Eliza Jane Wattles, born November 17, 1824, 
married Charles Higgins and lived in Caro- 



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line. She died January i6, 1870, and Mr. 
Higgins October 11, 1902. They had two 
children; Frank G.» b. March 20, 1857, m. 
Sara Krum; they live on the homestead and 
have no children. Clara, b. August 20, 
i860, d. May 13, 1898. 

Chauncey Lathrop Wattles, born March 27, 
1826, was married October 19, 1857, to Al- 
mira, daughter of Cephas and Mary Barker 
of Tully, Onondaga Co., N. Y. For ten 
3^ears he was a traveling salesman, after 
which he bought one of the best places in 
Caroline and settled down as a farmer. The 
following is from the VCa2LQ.2i Journal : 

In the unexpected death of Mr. Wattles, which 
occurred at his home in Caroline last Thursday after 
a very brief illness, the Democratic party loses one 
of its most valued members, and the county of 
Tompkins one of its most highly esteemed and up- 
right citizens. Mr. Wattles was a man of the strict- 
est integrity and was held in such esteem by his 
neighbors in the town of Caroline that he was twice 
elected to represent their interests in the board of 
supervisors although belonging to a party largely 
in the minority in the town. Mr. Wattles was six- 
ty-four years old at the time of his death and had 
always until attacked with the illness that proved 
fatal, been in the enjoyment of good health. He 
leaves a widow and a married daughter, besides two 
brothers, who will have the sympathy of the many 



102 JERUSHA 

citizens of the county who knew and respected the 
deceased husband, father and brother. 

He died January 8, 1890, and the widow re- 
sides with her daughter. They had two chil- 
dren, Cephas, b. April 11, 1861, d. July 5, 
1863, and Mary J., b. August 29, 1864, who 
was married October 31, 1888, to James W., 
son of James W. Reed and Elizabeth Stone 
of Warrensburg, N. Y. ; they reside at Glen 
Ridge, N. J., and Mr. Reed is an inspector 
of public buildings in New York city; Mr. 
and Mrs. Reed have had three children, 
Chauncey Wattles, b. August 20, 1889. 
James William, b. September 28, 1892, died 
February 19, 1907, and Edward Kenneth, b. 
December 11, 19CI. 

Letty Maria, born May, 16, 1828, married Jo- 
seph, son of Robert Wool and Mary Snyder 
of Dryden, N. Y. He was a farmer, and 
they lived about midway between Ithaca and 
Slaterville Springs, afterward at Candor, and 
later at Willseyville, where Mrs. Wool died 
January 7, 1893; Mr. Wool died Sept. 29, 
1893. They had one son, Vincent, b. April 
I, 1857. He spent five years in the United 
States Navy, and is now employed in the 
Government gun works at Springfield, Mass. ; 
was married June 23, 1900, to Alice, daugh- 



y BRUSH A 103 

ter of John W. and Elmina B. Swasey of 
Boston, Mass. ; they have no children. 

WilUam Henry Wattles, born March i6, 1830, 
was for fifteen years in the employ of An- 
drus & McChain of Ithaca, then retired and 
bought a good farm one mile east from Sla- 
terville, where he died April 23, 1885. He 
married Zada, daughter of Benjamin and 
Mary Thomas. Mrs. Wattles died Novem- 
ber 8, 1888. They had no children. 

Hubert Wattles, born April 13, 1832, a farmer 
and fruit-grower, lives about two miles west 
from Slaterville. January 14, 1863, ^^ mar- 
ried Welthy, daughter of Abram and Lois 
Boice of Caroline. They have had three 
children: Georgianna, b. August 4, 1864, 
was m. October 24, 1889, to Daniel W. , son 
of John and Cynthia Oakley of Naples, N. 
Y. ; they have no children. William H., 
b. September r, 1866, d. October 22, 1892; 
he did not marry. Benjamin B., b. July 12, 
1870, was married June 30, 1895, to Neenah, 
daughter of Luther and Kate Welch of Rich- 
ford, Tioga Co., N. Y. ; they live on the 
farm with his parents and have no children. 

Lucinda J.Watties, born April i, 1834, married 
Cassimore, son of Hiram and Anna Bliss of 



104 J E RUSH A 

Berkshire, N. Y. In 1859 she was left a wid- 
ow with two daughters, Jessie, b. October 30, 
1855, and Kate, b. September 26, 1857. I^ 
1873 Lucinda married for her second hus- 
band Dr. G. S. Gallagher. For a year or 
two they lived at Cohocton, then removed 
to Naples, N. Y. , where she died March 13, 
1 89 1. The following tribute was published 
in a Naples newspaper at the time of her de- 
cease: 

On Friday, March 13, at 6 P. M., after an illness of 
several months, Mrs. Lucinda I. Gallagher passed 
peacefully away and entered into her rest. And so 
another one of the most useful and beloved women 
of our village has been taken from us, from her hus- 
band and daughters, taken in the prime of life from 
the many fields of labor in which she garnered 
much fruit to God's glory, and had hoped to gather 
yet much more. 

" Death loves a shining mark." Doubtless no 
one in town who had lived among us so few years 
had so won the love and esteem of everyone as had 
this consecrated woman. She was the daughter 
of Lathrop Wattles, and was born in Virgil, Cort- 
land County, April i, 1834. 

In the early part of the year 1878, during the min- 
istry of the Rev. W. L. Austin, she became a pro- 
fessed follower of the Master, and with this joyful 
experience began a life of wonderful power. In 
1881 she united with the Presbyterian church and was 
ev'er afterward its strong pillar. Gifted with more 
than ordinary ability, kind-hearted, affable in man- 



y BRUSH A 105 

ner, generous, energetic and zealous, with all those 
powers consecrated as they were, it is not surpris- 
ing that she accomplished so much good. In the 
work of the church and Sunday school, in gospel 
temperance work, in work among the children, in 
consistent social life, in hospitality, in charity, and 
in personal ministrations to the sick and sorrowing 
she was ever foremost, doing with her might what 
her hands found to do. Mrs. Gallagher's interest 
in any project was an assurance of its success. 

On Monday afternoon, March i6, just nineteen 
years from the day of her marriage, her obse- 
quies were held. Flowers and floral emblems, 
beautiful and appropriate, surrounded the casket in 
which she slept so naturally and peacefully. The 
large house was filled with sincere mourners. The 
Rev. B. F. Millard, her only pastor since her con- 
nection with the church, pronounced a fervent eulo- 
gy, which found a response in the hearts of every- 
one present. The 31st Psalm was read, for on its 
margin in her well-worn Bible was written " Read 
this when I am gone," The hymns, *' Nearer, my 
God, to Thee" and "Ever Remembered" were 
sung, and then there went out from the home in 
which she had taken such delight, the wife, mother 
and saint, the bodj' to be consigned to its resting- 
place in Rose Ridge, but the soul to dwell in its far 
more glorious home beyond the skies. 

FROM HER FAMII^Y. 

For some time we could hear her say: 
" Farewell, my home, my home no longer now, 
Witness of many a calm and happy day; 
And thou, fair eminence, upon whose brow 
Dwells the last sunshine of the evening ray." 



106 JERUSHA 

Retiring the last night she said: " I am weary; I 
will now go to sleep. Good night." 
Thanks be to God, she could hear us all. 

Wife, mother, grandma, 

Say not "good night," but in some 

Brighter clime bid us " good morning." 

RESOIvUTlONS OF THE W. C. T. U. 

At a special meeting of the Woman's Christian 
Temperance Union, held March 15, the following 
preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopt- 
ed: 

Whereas, It has pleased our Heavenly Father, in 
His mysterious though all-wise providence, to re- 
move from among us our beloved friend and co- 
worker, Mrs. G. S. Gallagher, who for thirteen 
years had been a valued and useful member of 
the Union; 

Resolved^ That we desire to express our deep and 
fervent appreciation of her fidelity and devoted self- 
sacrificing service during all the long years of our 
work together. 

Resolved^ That we shall ever cherish in sacred re- 
membrance her Christian example and steadfast de- 
votion to duty, her practical, zealous enthusiasm in 
doing good everywhere and at all times. 

Resolved, That in her death the temperance work 
has lost one of its most ardent supporters, the poor 
and the suffering an ever-ready and sympathetic 
helper, the home circle, from which she vanished so 
softly and peacefully, a genial, gentle light, the 
community a noble, useful life, and the W. C. T. U. 
a cheery, ready companion in work and a true- 
hearted friend. 



J BRUSH A 107 

Resolved^ That these resolutions be placed upon 
our permanent records and published in the weekly 
paper. Mrs. N. N. Beers, Pres. W. C. T. U. 

Mrs. E. C. CI.ARKE, Sec'y. 

After the death of Lucinda Dr. Gallagher 
married the daughter Jessie and they re- 
moved to Chicago, where he died February 
1 6, 1897. "^^^ widow returned to Naples 
and died January i, 1905, in Geneva hos- 
pital; they had no children. The following 
obituary notice is from the paper before 
quoted from: 

Dr. G. S. and Mrs. Lucinda Gallagher came to 
Naples from Cohocton in 1875, accompanied by Mrs. 
Gallagher's two daughters, the Misses Jessie and 
Kittie Bliss. They took up their residence in what 
is now the lyincoln homestead, the place having just 
been vacated by Dr. Lusk, a former physician who 
had removed to Penn Yan. 

From the outset, this family was felt to be an ac- 
quisition to the town, and their works of faith and 
labors of love for the succeeding fifteen years proved 
that the confidence of the community was well 
placed. 

In 1891 Mrs. Gallagher died, and no woman was 
ever more missed or mourned than she. The name 
of Gallagher has been the synonym of generous and 
kindly words and unselfish deeds ever since. No 
more precious legacy could have been left the daugh- 
ters than the mantle of her Christian charity. 

That they appreciated the sacred trust none can 
doubt, and the numerous tributes paid yesterday to 



108 J E RUSH A 

the deceased daughter both in the way of testimo- 
nies to her worth, the beautiful flowers and the 
large attendance at the funeral show the esteem in 
which she was held by her neighbors and friends. 

She was always active in church work and ever 
ready to throw wide open her hospitable doors for 
the entertainment of its circles for work or social 
enjoyment. She was benevolent with her means 
and always interested in the welfare of the various 
branches of church activity. 

She will be greatly missed; and it is indeed a les- 
son of the uncertainty of life and the frailty of all 
earthly schemes when we recall her plans for the 
future and her expectations of yet many days. 

She is survived by her sister, Mrs. James E. Smith 
of Middlesex, her nephew, Oliver Smith, and her 
niece, Mrs. Gertrude Smith Mitchell, who had al- 
ways been her devoted and loved companion from a 
little child; also her cousin, Mrs. D. W. Oakley of 
Naples, her uncle, Mr. Bliss of Owego, who with his 
wife and son were present at the funeral, with other 
relatives from a distance. 

The funeral w^as attended from her late home on 
Tuesday afternoon, just two weeks from the day she 
left it in search of health and strength, intending 
soon to pursue her journey South, where she ex- 
pected to spend the winter. 

Her pastor, the Rev. Charles C. MacLean, of the 
Presbyterian church, officiated, and the burial was 
in Rose Ridge. 

Kate married James, son of Simon and Mar- 
tha Smith of Naples, Ontario Co., N. Y., 
and they reside at the present time at Mid- 



M\ 



JERUSHA 109 

dlesex, Yates Co., N. Y.; they have had 
three children, Gertrude, b. December i8, 
1878, m. Dr. William Mitchell of Elkland, 
Pa.; they have one child, John William, b. 
September 16, 1905. Frances, b. November 
3, 1891, d. July 4, 1895. Oliver, b. March 
30, 1894. 

Harriet Wattles, born March 24, 1836, mar- 
ried Stephen Pettigrove, a miller of Owego, 
N. Y. After leaving Owego they lived at 
Mottville, now Brookton, for a few years, 
then removed to West Canton, N. Y., where 
she died January 12, 1896. Mr, Pettigrove 
still lives at West Canton. They had no 
children. 

Georgiana Wattles, born April 7, 1838, mar- 
ried William K. Boice, born November 7, 
1836, son of Emery and Penelope Boice, who 
were born in Ulster County, N. Y., and re- 
moved to Caroline in 1837. Mr. Boice is a 
farmer, and they spent their entire married 
life near Slaterville Springs, where he now 
resides. Mrs. Boice died May 3, 1907. In 
her obituary notice the Ithaca Journal ^2i\^', 
" She was a devoted member of the M. E. 
church, of a kindly disposition, and endeared 
herself to all who knew her, and will be sin- 



110 JERUSHA 

cerely mourned by all. Her funeral was 
held from the M. K. church, the Rev. G. C. 
Jacobs officiatino^, assisted by the Rev. I. B. 
Wilson of Spencer." They had one child, 
Hattie J., born November 25, 1875, died 
November 27, 1875. They also took, when 
three j-ears of age, and brought up as their 
own, Julia Ballard, a daughter of Gabriel 
Ballard. Julia was married April 16, 1902, 
to Henry, son of Leroy and Lurana Watrous 
of Lapeer, N. Y., and they live at Slaterville 
Springs; they have four children, William 
Gurdon, b. February 16, 1903, R. Kenneth, 
b. November 26, 1905, and Paul George and 
Perry Leroy, twins, b. May 31, 1908. 

Daniel Webster Wattles, born March 3, 1840, 
married Nancy Robinson of Slaterville 
Springs. Mr. Wattles died June 3, 1883, 
and the widow May 31, 1903, aged sixty-five 
years. Webster, as he was generally called, 
was a farmer, but was in poor health for sev- 
eral years before his death. Mrs. Wattles 
, was the oldest postmistress in the state, hav- 
ing held the ofiice for thirty-one years. They 
had no children. 

Charles Mason Wattles was born October 15, 
1842, and at the time of his death, which 



JERUSHA 111 

occurred May 8, 1876, he and his family were 
living in New York city, and he was with 
H. K. Thurber & Co. February 8, 1866, 
he married Catharine E., daughter of Isaac 
Maqueston and Sarah Garner of Garnersville, 
Rockland Co., N. Y., where the widow now 
resides. They had two daughters: Carrie 
Maqueston, b. November 23, 1866, w^as mar- 
ried January 30, 1892, to J. Garner, son of 
George M. West and Amelia Thompson of 
Stony Point, N. Y., and they have two chil- 
dren, Marjorie, b. April 4, 1900, and Kath- 
ryn Edith, b. April 10, 1902. Edith Morens 
Wattles, the second daughter, b. November 
4, 1869, h^s not married. 

Carleton Squires Wattles, born June 26, 1844, 
was a commission merchant and dealer in 
produce in Ithaca, N. Y. , where he died Ju- 
ly 18, 1891. February 16, 1876, he married 
Elizabeth A., daughter of William A. and 
Lucy Woodford Gunderman of Danby, N. 
Y. They had one daughter, Lucy Wood- 
ford, b. September 17, 1877. She was mar- 
ried June 4, 1902, to Bert Roosa, son of Del- 
bert and Jennie Morgan Mitchell, a journal- 
ist of Ithaca, N. Y. 

Byron, the youngest child, w^as born February 



112 J E RUSH A 

15, 1847, and spent the greater part of his 
life on the horuestead farm, where he died 
December 21, 1905. He married February 
26, 1870, Cynthia, daughter of John and 
Maria Fitch and granddaughter of Sally 
Surdam. At the present time she lives at 
Caroline, N. Y. To them were born two 
children, Carleton and Harry Lathrop. 
Carleton, b. January 26, 1874, m. Addie, 
daughter of Ely Farley; they had no child- 
ren. The following is from the Ithaca Joitr- 
nal of May 6, 1909: 

Carleton Wattles, aged 35 years, died at 10 P. M. 
Friday, April 30, at his home in the town of Caro- 
line, two miles east of Slaterville. He had been ill 
for the past year and a complication of diseases 
caused his death. He is survived by his mother, 
Mrs. Cynthia Wattles, widow of the late Byron 
Wattles. The funeral was held on Monday aft- 
ernoon at two o'clock, and was in charge of the Sla- 
terville Lodge F. and A. M. Interment was in Ma- 
ple Grove cemetery. 

Harry Lathrop, b. April 4, 1876, d. May 18, 
1876. 



JANE BUTCHER SURDAM 



Jane Dutcher Surdam, third daughter of 
Daniel and Letty, was born in Salisbury, Conn., 
November 8, 1804, and was in her seventeenth 
3'ear when the family began its life of unusual 
toil and deprivation in Richford. 

Whether the unsanitary conditions prevented 
her growth and proper development or not, Death 
claimed her as his victim. She lived to woman- 
hood and for a short time taught, probably in the 
school near her home; but on the 9th of May, 
1826, when only twenty-one years of age, she 
succumbed to that dread disease, consumption. 
The family circle was broken. Her's was the 
first and only death that occurred in the home of 
Daniel and Letty during the sixty years of their 
wedded life. A simple funeral service was held, 
no doubt conducted by the Rev. Mr. Morse, and 
attended by all the settlers in that vicinity. 

Jane and Edward were the eldest of the chil- 
dren then living at home, and there was an unu- 

113 



114 , JANE BUTCHER 

sual bond of affection between them, and father 
always spoke of her very tenderly and of the per- 
sonal loss he sustained in her death. Their re- 
mains now lie side by side in the little cemetery, 
near the schoolhouse. 



EDWARD WILLIAM SURDAM 



Edward William Surdam was born at Salis- 
burj^ Conn., April 14, 1807. His only recollec- 
tion of his childhood home was that when five or 
six years old he was ill and his father led a white- 
faced horse up to the window that he might see it. 

He was never, as a boy or a man, very strong 
and rugged, but he bore his full share of the bur- 
dens of life. At fourteen years of age, when the 
family began as pioneers, he helped to build the 
house and clear the land, and when his father 
went out to work for others by the day, he went 
with him, and sometimes after the day's labor 
was ended he was so exhausted that in going 
home he had to stop by the wayside several times 
to rest. 

When a young man, he left the farm for a 
time and was clerk in a store at Marathon owned 
by James Squires. While there, as previously, 
he employed his leisure time in study, and later, 
with some assistance from Dr. Elijah Powell of 

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116 EDWARD WILLIAM 

Richford, he fitted himself for teaching, which he 
followed as a wdnter occupation for several years. 
He was w^ell qualified in the branches required to 
be taught. I never knew him to misspell a word, 
and he was a better penman than any of his chil- 
dren or grandchildren. He was always well read 
and a student, keeping himself well informed in 
regard to current events and matters of general 
interest and importance. 

For many years he was a deacon in the 
Christian Church, of which he was a consistent 
and worthy member. Although he was public- 
spirited he did not seek office, but for a long time 
he served on the board of assessors. In politics 
he was a Whig until 1856, when he joined the 
Republican party, which came into existence that 
year. 

When teaching in Caroline he became ac- 
quainted with Jerusha M. Earsley, daughter of 
William Earsley and Ruth Bailey. Her grand- 
mother, Mary Johnson, was Dutch, born in Hol- 
land, and her grandfather, Francis Earsley, w^as 
born in Ireland of English parents. He served 
in the war of the Revolution, and died in Essex 
County, N. J., in 1790, leaving a widow with ten 
children. In 1795 she bought one hundred acres 
of land for %ioo and settled in Caroline. They, 
with Captain David Rich and family, were the 




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first and for several j^ears the only settlers in 
that part of Tompkins County. *' There was no 
house east nearer than Berkshire, and none west 
until they reached Ithaca, and only a log house 
at that. They had to go to Owego — twenty-four 
miles — to mill." 

Edward and Jerusha were married July 21, 
1836, and began housekeeping one mile southeast 
of the Surdam homestead on a farm that he had 
previously purchased. For twenty years they 
enjoyed the comforts and blessings of home and 
family life. During that time, however, Edward 
was called upon to bear the greater part of the 
care and anxiet}^ attending the illness of his 
brother Charles and the ageing of his father and 
mother. 

In the fall of 1856 several members of Benja- 
min Houk's family had typhoid fever and Jerusha 
helped to take care of them and contracted the 
disease, which was the primary cause of her 
death. She died April 30, 1857, aged forty-four 
years, and left six children, Mary Jane, Richard 
Lee, Eliza, Francis M., Charles Edward and Seth 
S. Mother's death was a terrible blow to all of us, 
and especially so to father, but he bore it bravely. 
I have a scrap-book in which he had written 
choice selections as far back as September 4, 1836, 
and in which he copied a few weeks after moth- 
er's death the following lines: 



118 EDWARD WILLIAM 

THE ANGEL OF PATIENCE. 

To weary hearts, to mourning homes, 
God's meekest angel gently comes. 
No power has he to banish pain, 
Or give us back our lost again, 
And yet in tenderest love our dear 
And Heavenly Father sends him here. 

There's quiet in that angel's glance, 

There's rest in his still countenance. 

He mocks no grief with idle cheer 

Nor wounds with words the mourner's ear; 

But ills and woes he may not cure 

He kindly helps us to endure. 

Angel of patience, sent to calm 
Our feverish brow with cooling balm 
To lay the storm of hope and fear, 
And reconcile life's smile and tear; 
And throbs of wounded pride to still 
And make our own our Father's will. 

Oh! thou who mournest on thy way, 
With longings for the close of day, 
He walks with thee, that angel kind. 
And gently whispers, " Be resigned." 
Bear up ! Bear on ! the end shall tell, 
The good I^ord ordereth all things well 
May 15th, 1857. 

Also the following, but without date: 

A LESSON. 

We daily walk the crowded street, 
Nor heed the sky above us : 

We seldom say to those we meet, 
That there is One above us. 



EDWARD WILLIAM 119 

With toil and care our days are rife, 
Made sad by fears and sighing; 

This struggle is what we call life, 
And yet we shrink from dying. 

We mourn earth's early broken ties, 

As if naught could restore them, 
And with tear-dimmed and hopeless eyes 

We scatter pale flowers o'er them. 
The faith that should be strong to bless 

Is scarcely self-sustaining; 
And in the hour of deep distress 

No refuge is remaining. 

O weak in trust, and dim in sight ! 

When wnll ye heed the teaching, 
That Heaven is never out of sight, 

Nor God beyond our reaching ? 
The years roll on with loss and gain, 

And joy conies after sorrow; 
To-day we plant in grief and pain, 

And gladly reap to-morrow. 

And yet perchance our faith to try, 

God sendeth waiting, weary, 
And we grope on 'neath clouded sky, 

In pathways lone and dreary. 
It matters not, for soon or late. 

Life's lesson will be ended, 
And we shall enter Heaven's gate 

By angel forms attended. 

The next affliction of the family after the 
loss of the wife and mother was the illness and. 
death of Richard, the eldest son. 

In the early '60s Edward, with George Wil- 



120 EDWARD WILLIAM 

COX, went to Otselic to attend a church confer- 
ence. The day was bitter cold and he suffered 
to such an extent that the muscles of his legs 
shriveled and caused a great deal of distress for 
two or three years, and from that condition they 
never fully recovered. 

February 22, i860, Edward married RuthM. 
Earsley, a sister of his first wife, and they had 
one child, Orville. 

About 1870 they removed to Caroline, where 
Edward died December 2, 1872, aged sixty-five 
years, and his widow January 2, 1900, aged sev- 
enty-eight. 

DKSCENDANTS OF EDWARD W. SURDAM. 

Mary Jane Surdam, born Oct. 18, 1837, was 
married in 1861 to Frank F. French of Itha- 
ca, N. Y. , and they had three children, Frank 
F., Charles E. and Mary. The mother died 
February 23, 1875, and a few years after the 
father with his two sons removed to Albu- 
querque, N. M., and later to Clarendon, 
Texas, where he still lives. Frank F., b. 
September 26, 1862, married Laura Blaike, 
of Galveston, Tex., who died November 13, 
1894, leaving one child, Elma Eouise, b. 
January 24, 1894; he married for his second 
wife Lillie Jones of Clarendon; they live at 



EDWARD WILLIAM 121 

Fort Worth, Tex., where he is emplo3'ed as 
foreman in a railroad machine shop. 
Charles Edward, b. August 17, 1864, m. 
Louie A. Way of Laredo, Tex., where they 
resided for several years; they now live at 
Vicksburg, Miss.; he is a painter and con- 
tractor; they have three children, Myrtis, b. 
July 14, 1891, Mary, February 10, 1S93, and 
Charles E., Jr., November 14, 1894. 
Mary, b. June 4, 1868, d. June 30, 1868. 

Richard Lee Surdam was born August 29, 1839. 
As a boy and j^oung man he w^as amiable in 
disposition and of excellent character. When 
about twenty years of age his health failed 
and he also suffered a mental breakdown, 
from which he did not fully recover. He 
died April 13, 1865. 

Bliza Surdam, born July 12, 1841, was married 
August 30, 1863, to Seymour Hults, born 
December 28, 1838, son of William Hults 
and Jane Hyde of Port Washington, L. I. 

When Mr. Hults was a boy his parents 
died, and for several years he lived with his 
uncle, Seymour Hyde, in Richford. He was 
a volunteer in the war of the Rebellion, and 
the following is his record as given by him- 
self : 



122 EDWARD WILLIAM 

I was sworn into the United States service in New 
York city May 31, 1861, for two years, as private in 
Co. E, 32nd New York State Infantry. The regi- 
ment was organized at New Dorp, Staten Island, 
and soon after the first of June was ordered to Wash- 
ington. We marched with loaded guns through the 
city of Baltimore, where the Sixth Regiment of Mas- 
sachusetts had been mobbed a few weeks before, 
and encamped near the Capitol at Washington. 

Two weeks later we crossed the Potomac and en- 
camped near Alexandria, Va. About the middle of 
Jul}' the Army of the Potomac took up the line of 
march for Bull Run, and on Saturday afternoon, the 
20th of July, our compan}' was detailed for a skir- 
mish to find the advance line of the enemy, and we 
found it, for we came to a halt where the battle began 
the next day about noon. Our regiment was held in 
reserve until four o'clock when we were called into 
action until night set in, and with the aid of a bat- 
tery of light artillery covered the retreat of our army 
on the Alexandria road. The rest of the year was 
mostly spent in fortifying Washington and Alexan- 
dria. 

In November, 1861, another comrade and I were 
detailed from the regiment to report to the signal 
camp at Georgetown Heights to practice for signal 
duty. My station for signal practice a part of the 
time was the dome of the capitol. 

In the spring of 1862 we went with a fleet under 
Cieorge B. McClellan down the Potomac to Fortress 
Monroe, were in a skirmish at Great Bethel, at the 
siege of Yorktown, Williamsburg, Bottom's Bridge 
and Fair Oaks, four miles from Richmond. Here I 
was taken sick and sent to White House Landing 



EDWARD WILLIAM 123 

hospital; from there to Portsmouth Grove hospital, 
Rhode Island. About August 15, 1862, I went back 
to Convalescent Camp at Alexandria, thence to camp 
at Georgetown Heights, then on the signal line from 
Washington to Harper's Ferry, I was with three 
other comrades and two officers stationed on Sugar 
L,oaf Mountain, Maryland, when my horse fell with 
me, and I was injured and had to return to the sig- 
nal camp at Georgetown. 

In the spring of 1863 I went with a signal party to 
Fort Washington, on the Maryland side of the Po- 
tomac. While there the commander of the fort, by 
request of our lieutenant, furnished us with a ma- 
rine boat and marines to row it, and we went down 
the river to Mount Vernon and visited Washington's 
home and plantation, then returned to Georgetown, 
and then was ordered to rejoin my company and 
regiment at City Hall, New York city, where I was 
discharged from the service on the 9th of June, 1863. 

Mr. and Mrs. Hults lived at Port Washington 
until 1873, when they removed to Richford, 
N. Y. Afterward they lived at McGrawville 
and at Marathon. Their present home is at 
Hunts Corners, N. Y. , on what for many years 
was the Harvey Johnson homestead. They 
have had two children, Minnie and Elmer. 
Minnie was born at Port Washington, March 
14, 1866, and died October 19, 1867. Elmer 
E., b. September 13, 1870, was graduated 
from the Marathon high school and taught 
for a while, and afterward married, Novem- 



124 EDWARD WILLIAM 

ber 14, 1895, Mabel, daughter of William 
and Lucretia Hunt; they have had five chil- 
dren: Lewis Hunt, b. July 4, 1896, d. Au- 
gust 5, 1896; Murilla Eliza, b. November 7, 
1897; Harold Elmer, May 12, 1899; Mary 
Lucretia, March 24, 1904, and Robert Sey- 
mour, March 17, 1906; Elmer and family live 
at Hunts Corners. 

Francis M. Surdam, born April 2, 1843, was 
married June i, 1870, by Rev. Wm. Grimes 
to Rachel, born October 14, 1863, daughter 
of Thomas Beattie and Jennet Halladay of 
Truxton, N. Y. He was a miller at Syra- 
cuse and Harford Mills, then a farmer. For 
a short time he lived on the homestead farm 
at Richford Hill before removing to Hunts 
Corners, where he has been for twenty-five 
years. He has always been an active Re- 
publican, and for several years was a member 
of the county board of supervisors. They 
have had no children. 



Charles Edward Surdam was born October 20, 
1845. He began teaching school in 1863, 
first at *' Padlock," then for two winters on 
Richford Hill, and afterward at Newark Val- 
ley. In October, 1868, he went to Port 
Washington, Long Island, and was principal 



EDWARD WILLIAM 125 

of the school in that place for ten years. He 
then resigned to accept the office of School 
Commissioner in Queens County, which he 
held for two terms — six years; then he was 
superintendent of schools at West New 
Brighton, Staten Island, for four years, dur- 
ing which time he was for one year presi- 
dent of the New York State Teachers' Asso- 
ciation. 

In 1888 he quit school work and for ten 
years was with Harper and Brothers, pub- 
lishers, in New York city. In 1893 ^^ re- 
moved from Staten Island to Morristown, N. 
J., and in 1900 bought a half-interest in 
" The Jersey man " printing and publishing 
business. In the same year he was ap- 
pointed by Governor Voorhees a member 
of the State Board of Education to fill a 
vacancy. The next year he was reappointed 
by Gov. Murphy for five years, and in 1906 
by Governor Stokes for another term of five 
years. October 15, 1868, he married Mary 
Frances, daughter of James S. Heath and 
Sarah D. Green. She was born at Slaterville 
September 8, 1847. Her father's family re- 
moved in 1852 to Harford, where her father 
died in 1861, and from there in 1867 to Can- 
dor, N. Y. She had been a teacher, and for 



126 EDWARD WILLIAM 

several years continued to teach at Port Wash- 
ington. They had two children, Bertha Heath 
and James Edward. Bertha was born Sep- 
tember 20, 1870. From childhood she was 
regarded by all who knew her as a person of 
rare excellence of heart, mind and character. 
In 1886, while a student at Packer Collegi- 
ate Institute, Brooklyn, her health failed, 
and after four years of Christian patience 
and resignation she passed awaj' October 30, 
1890. 

IN MEMORIAM. 

Whereas, Miss Bertha H. Surdatn, an active mem- 
ber of the Young People's Society of Christian 
Endeavor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, 
has fallen asleep in Jesus; therefore 

Resolved^ That we hereby express our heartfelt ap- 
preciation of her many amiable personal qualities, 
the evident simplicity and devotion of her Christian 
life, and the faithful service she has rendered as cor- 
responding secretary of our society since its organi- 
zation, and in various spheres of activity in our be- 
loved church. 

Resolved, That while we are filled with sorrow by 
her removal from us, we rejoice in the assurance 
that our present loss is her eternal gain. 

Resolved, That we extend to her parents our sin- 
cere sympathy in their great bereavement, and com- 
mend them in our praj'ers to that dear Saviour 
whom their daughter loved so well. 

Otis H. Kennedy, ] 

Lena Hver, \ Committee. 

D. B. F. Randolph, J 

Approved at a special meeting held Oct. 31, 1S90. 



ED WARD WILLIAM 127 

From The Christian Advocate, New York, November 
2^ ^ iSgo, by a former Pastor. 

SURDAM. — Bertha H., daughter of Charles E. and 
Mary F. Surdam, entered into rest October 30, 1890, 
aged 20 years, i month, 10 days. When twelve years 
of age she was converted, and immediately became 
active for Christ. She gave to her church and inter- 
ests connected therewith her best service of time 
and talents. Besides her regular church and Sun- 
day-school work, she has served as secretary of the 
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and as corre- 
sponding secretary of the Young People's Society of 
Christian Endeavor of Trinity Church, West New 
Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y. For the past four 
years her health has been feeble, yet to the extent 
of her ability she sought to advance the cause she 
loved. At home or in society she was gentle, unas- 
suming and always ready to minister unto others. 
From childhood she was cheerful, thankful, and 
ever appreciated the beautiful, pure, and good, wher- 
ever found. Her presence in her home was a con- 
stant benediction, and her life before the world a 
W'Orthy example. During her sickness, she was pa- 
tient, and sought constantly to look upon the bright 
side for the sake of her parents, who, with burdened 
hearts, ministered lovingly to her needs. Those 
who knew her best loved her most. 

F. G. HowEivi.. 

From The Golden Rule, Boston, Mass., Nov. 2'j , iSgo. 
Through the death of Miss Bertha H. Surdam 
the Trinity Methodist Society of West New Brigh- 
ton, S. I., has suffered a severe loss. Not only was 
she an earnest activ^e member, but the faithful cor- 
responding secretary of the society. 



128 EDWARD WILLIAM 

James Edward was born October 2, 1872, and 
died September 7, 1873, 

Seth S. Surdam was born July 10, 1849. He 
was educated in the public schools and at the 
Ithaca Academy. He taught school in his 
native county and on Long Island, being for 
several years principal of the Oyster Bay 
public school. He was also School Commis- 
sioner in Queens County for six years. Later 
he engaged in the hardware businCvSS at Can- 
dor, N. Y. In 1900 he removed to Morris- 
town, N. J., and was in "The Jerseyman " 
office until his death, which occurred Octo- 
ber 16, 1907. He was a member of the Pres- 
byterian Church, Cincinnati Lodge F. & A. 
M., and Loantaka Council of the Royal Arca- 
num. In 1878 he married Lillie J., daugh- 
ter of Malvina Wooster and Fidelia Holcomb 
of Lero}^ Pa. Two children were born to 
them, Alvena Maria and Charles Francis. 



It is with a deep sense of a personal loss, shared 
not only by all connected with " The Jerseyman " 
office, but by many of our patrons, that we record 
the death of Seth S. Surdam, who passed away at 
his home on Mt. Kemble avenue, on Wednesday, 
October 16. During the seven years of his residence 
in Morristown he had made many friends by his 
pleasant manners and painstaking care to be accu- 




SETH S. SURDAM 

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EDWARD WILLIAM ' 129 

rate and just in everything that required his atten- 
tion and in his dealings with his fellows. The loss 
of his son a year ago was a severe blow to him and 
aggravated a chronic trouble, which resulted in a 
severe illness last winter, a recurrence of which 
caused his death. 

The funeral services were held at his late residence 
on Thursday evening, the Rev. A. G. Russell, of 
Oyster Bay, a former pastor, officiating. He spoke 
very feelingly of the Christian character of the de- 
ceased and his influence, which was felt throughout 
the community and in the schools of the county. 
The remains were taken to Candor to-day, where the 
interment will be to-morrow.—/. R. Pierson in The 
Jerseyman. 

The services at Candor were held on vSaturday at 
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Jennings. Rev. W. 
F. Dickinson, of Homer, N. Y., officiated and took 
for his text, " Enoch walked with God: and he was 
not; for God took him." Rev. O. H. Denny offered 
prayer; Mrs. F. I,. Heath, Mrs. J. B. Meloy and Miss 
Holdridge furnished appropriate and well-rendered 
music. The high regard in which Mr. Surdam was 
held in Morristown was shown in part by the beau- 
tiful flowers which were brought from there: a very 
large piece, with masonic emblems and pedestal, 
from Cincinnati Lodge; a large anchor from the Bi- 
ble class, and wreaths, roses, chrysanthemums and 
other flowers from his personal friends. He was 
buried in Maple Grove cemetery, by the side of his 
son Charles. — Candor Courier. 

Alvena M., boru September 2, 1882, was 
married October 4, 1904, to James Jetinings, 



130 EDWARD WILLIAM 

Jr.. of Candor, N. Y. ; they have two chil- 
dren, Frances Mary, b. September 22, 1905, 
and Janet Surdam, b. September 21. 1907. 

Charles Francis, was born April 23, 1886, 
and died October 13, 1906, from injuries re- 
ceived while playing football. He was the 
last great-grandson of Daniel Surdam and 
the only hope of perpetuating the name 
through that branch of the family. 

The game, which was between the Morris- 
town High School and the Morristown 
School, a boarding and college preparatory 
school for young men, two miles from the 
city, stood 6 to o in favor of the High School 
and only five minutes more to play. He had 
made the only touchdown, and was clearly 
the favorite in the field. The accident was 
a very unusual one and not in any w^ay at- 
tributable to harsh playing. He w^as mak- 
ing a " flying tackle," and in some way fell 
upon his head and shoulders, the immediate 
cause of his death being a hemorrhage at the 
base of the brain. Two doctors were present 
and he was taken to the hospital ward of the 
school and cared for by them, and his par- 
ents and their family physician were hurried 
to his bedside, but nothing could be done for 
him. He was unconscious from the first. 




CHARLES FRANCIS SURDAM 

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EDWARD WILLIAM 131 

and expired three hours after he was injured. 

The remains were removed to his home in 
Morristown, where on Monday evening a 
funeral service was held which was very 
largely attended by the young people of the 
city, and at which the Rev. Albert Erdman 
of Morristown and the Rev. A. G. Russell 
of Oyster Bay officiated. The next morning 
the remains were escorted to the railroad 
station by the young men of the High School 
and taken to Candor, N. Y., where another 
service was held at the home of his sister, 
Mrs. James Jennings, Jr. Interment w^as 
made in Maple Grove cemetery. 

He was graduated from the Morristown 
High School in June and was doing post- 
graduate work preparatory to entering Syra- 
cuse University, where he intended to fit 
himself for teaching mathematics, in which 
he was especially proficient. He w^as a mem- 
ber of the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion and of Bible Class " 56 " of the South 
Street Presbyterian Church. He had also 
decided to join the church at the next com- 
munion. The high esteem in wdiich he and 
his parents were held and the sympathy that 
was felt for them were in some degree indi- 
cated by the many letters of condolence re- 



132 EDWARD WILLIAM 

ceived and beautiful floral pieces sent to the 
funeral by the Morristown School, High 
School class of 1906, Gamma Sigma society, 
Class •' 56," Y. M. C. A., choir of the First 
Presbyterian Church, the young men of Mor- 
ristown and personal friends. 

The High School football team disbanded 
and may never be reorganized. 

At a special meeting of Morristown High School 
Athletic Association held on October 20, 1906, the 
following resolutions were adopted: 

Whereas, Almighty God in His divine wisdom has 
removed from our midst one of our members; in 
view of the loss we have sustained by the decease 
of our late member, Charles F. Surdam, and of the 
still heavier loss to those who were nearest and 
dearest to him; 

Resolved^ That it is but a just tribute to his mem- 
ory to say, that in regretting his removal from 
among us, we mourn for one who was fearless and 
true, ever ready to do his duty as a player and a stu- 
dent, courteous and kind to those with whom he 
came in contact, and worthy of our highest esteem. 

Resolved, That we tenderly condole with the fam- 
ily of our deceased associate in this their hour of 
trial and affliction, and commend them to the keep- 
ing of Him who looks with pitying eye upon the 
distressed and afflicted. 

Resolved^ That a copy of these resolutions be trans- 
mitted to the family of the deceased as a token of 
respect and regard felt by the members of this Asso- 



EDWARD WILLIAM 133 

ciation, and that these resolutions be spread in full 
upon the minutes and printed in «'The Maple I,eaf." 

Orville Surdam was born December 30, i860. 
When twenty years of age he entered the 
Cortland Normal School with every prospect 
of a successful life, but he was stricken with 
typhoid fever and died August 29, 1880, leav- 
ing a widowed mother fifty-eight years of 
age. After his death she lived alone for 
nearly twenty years, but spent the last year 
or two of her life with her brother, Francis 
Earsley, and his family on the old home farm 
where she was born. 



LETTY M. SURDAM JOHNSON 



Letty Maria Siirdam was born August i, 
1809, in Salisbur}^, Conn. She was therefore four 
years old when the family left Salisbury and 
twelve when they settled in Richford. 

When she arrived at young womanhood she 
sewed and taught school, probably in the vicinity 
of Marathon, and when twenty three years of 
age, February 5, 1832, she married Harvey John- 
son of Lapeer, who was born March 13, 1804. 

The Johnsons were English, and two of Har- 
vey's grandfather's brothers and their father 
fought with King George, but Harvey's grandfa- 
ther, John, and one brother fought with Wash- 
ington. John was aide to Washington, and his 
grandson, Franklin Johnson, now, or recently, liv- 
ing at Whitney's Point, has the papers, signed by 
Washington, giving to the widow of John a pen- 
sion of sixty-six dollars a year on account of the 
brave and efficient service rendered by her hus- 
band to his country. 

134 



LETTY MARIA 135 

The Johnson family came from Schoharie 
County, N. Y. , to Lapeer, and at least four of 
the brothers, William, Royal, Harvey and Eras- 
tus, bought farms adjoining each other. Harvey 
bought what is now known as the Giles Goodale 
place, north of the " Whig" schoolhouse. 

Afterward, he sold that and bought the farm 
now owned by F. M. Surdam, and lived in a log 
house some distance west from where the house 
now stands. The ruins are near some chestnut 
trees in the pasture north of land now owned by 
Eliza Bliss. Next they lived on the farm recently 
sold by Elmer Hults to Leonard Sheldon. 

Then he bought the place now owned by 
Seymour Hults and lived there until his death. 
At the time of the death of the wife, Letty, they 
lived in a log house part way down the hill to- 
ward the Samuel Bliss place. 

Letty was not only a teacher but she wrote 
some very good poetry. One verse, which has 
been preserved by her son Lee, was composed be- 
fore her marriage, while riding alone on horse- 
back over a bridle path from Richford to Lapeer. 
The writing is in a fine, firm hand, and reads as 
follows: 

See how the moments pass, how swift they haste 

away, 
In this instructive glass behold thy life's decay. 



136 J.ETTY MARIA 

Oh, waste not then thy prime in sin's pernicious 

road, 
Redeem thy precious time: acquaint thyself with 

God. 

She was the mother of eight children, all of 
whom, except one, were living at the time of her 
death, which occurred August i8, 1848. All of 
her daughters taught school. . 

October 3, 1850, Mr. Johnson married for 
his second wife Betsey Lott, a widow, whose 
maiden name was Smith. She died June 20, 1875, 
and Mr. Johnson July 25, 1876. The second wife 
had no children. 



Jane L. Johnson was born March 15, 1833 
She taught school for a time, and February 
13, 1862, was married to Lewis, son of Orin 
and Marion Day of Lapeer. Mr. Day was 
born May 17, 1828, and died January 8, 1882. 
They had three children, Curtis A., b. Octo- 
ber 13, 1863, Frank O., December 10, 1864, 
and Grace A., June 22, 1869; Frank died 
April 7, T893. Mrs. Day, her sou Curtis 
and her daughter live in Lisle, Broome Co., 
N. Y. 

Lee Johnson was born August 21, 1834, and on 
the 8th of February, 1861, married Augusta, 
daughter of Zenas Thompson and Patienc 



LETTY MARIA 137 

Church. Lee boug-ht his father's farm and 
they lived there about twenty years, then 
several years in Marathon. At present they 
reside about half a mile west from Hunts 
Corners. They have had two sons and three 
daughters. Earl Lee was born November 
24, 1863, and died August 30, 1896; in 
October, 1888, he married Addie, daugh- 
ter of James Byrnes of Elmira, N. Y., who 
died December i, 1904; they had no chil- 
dren. The brief story of bis life could not 
be better told than by his sister: 

Earl's death was caused by an accident on the Illi- 
nois Central Railroad, of which company he was an 
employee. As his train was entering Kankakee, 
just out of Chicago, he was missed, and investiga- 
tion showed that probably he had missed his footing 
and fell from the car while on duty, receiving injur- 
ies that were probably instantly fatal. His remains 
were buried at Marathon in the family lot. 

Early in life Earl learned telegraphy and became 
very shortly a rapid operator; but defective hearing 
prevented his being able to catch rapid messages. 
Two of his strongest characteristics were persever- 
ance and independence-to-succeed-unaided. When 
he was convinced that his success in telegraphy w^as 
impossible he embraced the only opportunity that 
seemed within his reach, that of railroading. This 
he followed, with the exception of a few months, 
until his death. He met with two previous acci- 
dents—once of so serious a nature that escape from 
death seemed miraculous. 



138 LETTY MARIA 

Always happy and thoughtful of others, never ag- 
gressive but firm in defending right and justice, he 
won the friendship of many and the respect of all, 
and exerted a strong influence over his fellow-work- 
men, winning a truly great honor in the sight of 
God and the nobler of men, that of leading those 
about him to better purposes and aims and to nobler 
manhood. 

Written in memory of my brother as I knew him. 

EWZABETH J. BUCKI^AND. 

Letty Belinda was b. March 27, 1865. On 
February 3, 1892, she was married to Clark 
A. , son of Augustus Burgess and Albertine 
Pheteplace of Marathon, N. Y. ; they have 
one child, Augustus Lee, b. May 21, 1893; 
their present residence is Cleveland, Ohio. 
Mary Elizabeth, b, October 22, 1866, was m. 
October 1892, to George Washington, son of 
Selden Buckland and Clarissa Gilmore of 
Binghamton, N. Y., and a great-grandson of 
Captain Buckland, who was a spy in the ser- 
vice of Washington during the war of the 
Revolution. They live in Buffalo, N. Y. ; 
their only child, Bernice Augusta, b. No- 
vember II, 1894, ^i^d J^^y ^4* 1895. I'h^ 
following clipping is from the Marathon In- 
dependerit : 

The sad intelligence of the death of Bernice A. 
Buckland, only daughter of G. W. and Elizabeth J. 
Buckland, of 51 West Genesee street, Buffalo, was 



LETTY MARIA 139 

announced Sabbath morning, July 14. The funeral 
services were held from the family residence Mon- 
day at 10 A. M. Most impressive services were con- 
ducted by the Rev. Mr. Coats of the First Baptist 
Church. The casket was covered with flowers pre- 
sented by affectionate and loving friends. The ser- 
vices were opened by singing "Safe in the arms of 
Jesus" by the quartet, after which the Rev. Mr. 
Coats offered a fervent prayer, commending the be- 
reaved friends to Him who said, " Suffer little chil- 
dren to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of 
such is the Kingdom of Heaven." After a brief 
discourse the choir sang '* Waiting at the Beautiful 
Gate." 

A brief service was held the following day at Mar- 
athon, N. Y., by the Rev. E. R. D. Briggs. Here 
all that loving hands could do was done to beautify 
the final resting-place of the cherished blossom. 
Flowers were beautifully arranged by loving friends 
who awaited the sad home-coming, noticeably, an 
exquisitely arranged pillow of white carnations with 
" Bernice " of mountain daisies, by Mrs. C. A. Bur- 
gess; a wreath of white roses and carnations, by W. 
O. and E. S. Buckland. Flowers everywhere dis- 
pelled the grim hand of death. A word of prayer 
and comfort, a few flowers scattered by a mother's 
loving hand, and all was done for one who had been 
the light and life of a now sad home. 

Amos Deville, was b. May 21, 1870; he is 
unmarried and resides with his parents. 
Lura M., born November 7, 1879, d. Febru- 
ary 13, 1880. 



140 LETTY MARIA 

Charity Johnson, born August 22, 1836, was 
married November 12, 1856, to Samuel S., 
son of Calvin and Hannah Bliss of Lapeer. 
The greater part of their married life was 
spent upon the farm which they recently sold 
to Elmer Hults; it is east of and adjoining 
the farm of Seymour Hults. Several years 
ago Mr. Bliss and his family removed to 
Marathon, where he died June 26, 1908; the 
house upon the farm was burned a few years 
ago and has not been rebuilt. Mr. and Mrs. 
Bliss had six children: Bion H., b. Novem- 
ber 16, 1857, d. April 5, 1858. Jennie L., 
b. July 31, 1859, d. March 22, 1879; she was 
an unusually bright and intelligent young 
lady, and her death not only brought great 
grief to her family but a personal loss to all 
who knew her. 

Bailey L. was b. October 6, 1861; he began 
life with every prospect of a bright and suc- 
cessful future, but his health failed and for 
many years he has been an invalid. Mary 
Lovicie, b. March 16, 1866, was m. September 
20, 1893, to Charles A., son of Albert and 
Sarah McAlpine of Pittston, Pa.; they live in 
Syracuse, N. Y. , and have no children. 
Grant W., b. June 3, 1868, is unmarried and, 
with his mother, lives at Marathon, N. Y. 



LETTY MARIA 141 

Caroline M. was born September 17, 1870; 
she evidently has dedicated her life to school 
work and is a teacher in the city of Syracuse. 

Eliza Johnson, born February 24, 1839, was 
nine years old when her mother died. The 
family was large and Jane and Charity kept 
the house and cared for the two little chil- 
dren, and Eliza had a good home in 
Lyman Watros' family until she was eight- 
een years of age. She was married Februa- 
ry 8, 186 r, to James W. Bliss, born March 
29, 1839, a brother of Samuel Bliss. Mr. 
Bliss died November 4, 1870. Mrs. Bliss 
lives at Marathon, N. Y. They had one son, 
Watson J., b. March 28, 1865; he m. Decem- 
ber 27, 1893, Nellie G, Johnson, and they 
have one son, Walter Harold, b. May 3, 1904; 
they live at Marathon. 

lyOvicie Johnson was born March 13, 1841, and 
after the death of her mother she lived with 
her uncle, Orville Surdam, until her marri- 
age, September 19, i860, to Charles Wad- 
hams, son of Joseph Lovell and Maryetta 
Wadhams of Marathon. Mr. and Mrs. Lov- 
ell removed to Michigan and now reside at 
Hillsdale. They have three children: Ells- 
worth, b. September 5, 186 1, was m. Decern- 



142 LETTY MARIA 

ber 19, 1883, to Addie A., daughter of Oscar 
F. Gre}^ and Hannah C. Thompson of Nun- 
da, N. Y. ; Mr. Lovell is superintendent of 
the county farm at Hillsdale; they have had 
three children: the first, a son, b. December 
3, 1885, died December 9, 1885; the second, 
Eugene Clare, b. February 28, 1891, and 
Helen Marjorie, October 9, 1905. Charles 
Eugene, was b. March 2, 1863, and on the 
15th of December, 1897, ™- Harriet, daugh- 
ter of Arthur Merchant and Ann Rainey of 
Jonesville, Mich., where they now reside. 
Mary Elizabeth, b. February i, 1869, lives 
with her parents; she is a teacher, and has 
been principal of the Jonesville high school 
for ten years. 

A fifth daughter which was born to Letty and 
Harvey Johnson August 16, 1843, ^^^ died 
September 18, 1843, was not named. 

Amos Johnson, the second son of Letty and 
Harvey, was born December 20, 1844, and 
died October 8, 1868. He married June 6, 
1867, Emma, daughter of Almeron Talbot 
and Diana Harvey of Hunts Corners. They 
had one child. Flora, born June 7, 1868, died 
October i, 1869. The widow married Elmer 
Homer, and is still living near Hunts Cor- 
ners. 



LETTY MARIA 143 

Ivetty Johnson, the sixth daughter, was born 
December 15, 1847, and died February 17, 
1894. She was married December 31, 1867,' 
to Freeman Cook of Lapeer, where he still 
resides. They had one son, Asahel O., born 
June I, 1871. He married April 30, 1904, 
Belle, daughter of Charles Richardson and 
Loretta Nelson. They live at Marathon. 



MARTHA E. SURDAM FREEMAN 



Martha Emily Surdam was born at Salis- 
bury, Conn., August i, 1811, and was ten years 
of age when her father's family settled in Rich- 
ford. She taught school for some time, and on 
August 31, 1836, was married to Gilbert Gaston 
Freeman, the third child and second son of Jo- 
seph Freeman. Matilda Freeman Gates says: 

We do not know the Freeman history farther 
back, and only know that there was a sister Ruth 
who married Mr. Talmage, and was the grand- 
mother of WilHam Shaw. They were from Berkshire 
County, Mass. Joseph Freeman married Eunice Gas- 
ton of Lee, Mass., in December, 1801. The Gastons 
were descended from French Huguenots who emi- 
grated to Ireland and acquired estates there. Several 
of our grandmother's family came to Madison Coun- 
ty, N. Y., and their descendants are still there, 
though not many bear that name. Our grandparents 
came to Berkshire, N. Y., in 1803 with Captain Branch 
and other families, a colony that gave the name to 
Berkshire. 

Here father was born August 23, 1808, and here 

144 



MARTHA EMILY 145 

he died August 30, 1892. Mother's birthday was Au- 
gust I, 1811, and she died September 5, 1884. 

Our parents lived in the north part of Richford, 
near Harford Mills, from the time of their marriage 
until April, 1849, when they moved to West Newark, 
and in March, 1853, to Caroline, near Speedsville, 
where they lived till the autumn of 1874, when they 
removed to Berkshire. Their children were: Matil- 
da Jane, born January 11, 1838; Harriet Eliza, July 26, 
1839; Louisa Maria, July 6, 1841; Frances Henrietta, 
June 6, 1844; Lewis Newell, January 21, 1848; Henry 
Augustine, April 29, 1850. In later years Henry 
wrote his name Charles Henry. 

Matilda Jane Freeman married the Rev. Ste- 
phen Pratt Gates, only son of Bezaliel Gates 
and Sally Pratt. 

Mr. Gates' father lived at East Haddam, Conn.; 
then at Chester, where Stephen was born January 10, 
1839. When he was five years old they removed to 
Rome, Pa. He entered Jefferson College as a soph- 
omore in 1859, was graduated in 1862, and entered 
Princeton Theological Seminary that fall. Very soon 
after his graduation (April, 1865) he went to Canton, 
beginning his ministry in the Presbyterian Church 
there June i, 1865, and ending it April 25, 1889. 
He had two short pastorates afterward, both broken 
off by serious illness. He was married June 8, 1867, 
to Emma Frances Fay of Hinckley, 111., whose 
grandmother was Emily Pratt, sister of his mother. 
She died March 16, 1871. Their eldest daughter, Al- 
ice Sophia, born July 15, 1868, died January 24, 1871, 
and the second daughter, Sarah Frances, was born 
December 24, 1869. In the summer of 1863 Mr. 



146 MARTHA EMILY 

Gates joined the Pennsylvania State Militia and 
served six or seven weeks. 

Mr. Gates married for his second wife Matil- 
da Freeman November 14, 1872. Their chil- 
dren were Leslie Freeman, born December 
21, 1873; Harry Clark, b. April 28, 1876; 
Howard Wells, b. October i, 1879, d. April 
24, 1 88 1. Mr. Gates died March 26, 1896. 
Mrs. Gates and her step daughter, Sarah, 
who is a librarian in the Normal School 
at Mansfield, live at Canton, Pa. 
Leslie Freeman was married December 21, 
1903, to Josephine R. Lamson of Chicago; 
Miss Lamson was of Holland descent through 
the Van Voorhees or Van Voorst families; 
for several years Mr. Gates was with the 
Chicago house of D. Appleton & Co., but in 
1906 he became a member of the firm of 
Lamson Bros. & Co., Chicago. Harry 
Clark was for some time engaged in business 
in Chicago; during the Spanish-American 
war he enlisted July 12, 1898 in Co. M, 9th 
Regiment Pa. Vols., and went to Chicka- 
mauga, was there until the end of August, 
had malarial fever, was sent home to save 
his life, and was mustered out with his regi- 
ment October 30; on the 23d of January, 
1907, he m. Anne Frances, daughter of Mrs. 
Ansel D. Williams of Canton, Pa.; they live 



MARTHA EMILY 147 

at Cauton, and have one child, Emily Fran- 
ces, b. April 22, 1908. 

Harriet Eliza Freeman married William T. 
Shaw, son of William Shaw and Betsey Tal- 
mage of Berkshire. William Shaw, Sr., was 
born in Charleton, Saratoga Co., N. Y., and 
married Betsy Talmage; went to Berkshire 
in 1820 and settled on the farm where he 
died and where the son William lived. They 
reared five children— two sons and three 
daughters. All have now passed away ex- 
cept the youngest son, Henry, who lives in 
Lyndon, 111. He and his wife have just cel- 
ebrated the sixty-third anniversary of their 
marriage. The following is taken from a 
local paper: 

William Talmage Shaw died Monday morning, 
May 4, of cerebral hemorrhage and old age at hts 
home in Berkshire. On Thursday and Friday be- 
fore he complained of not feeling well and did not 
attend to his regular duties, but Saturday he felt 
better and attended an auction in Berkshire village. 
Sunday he felt somewhat better and did chores at 
his barns, went to bed Sunday night, thinking he 
was and would be better, went to sleep and to all ap- 
pearances never awoke. Mrs. Shaw on awaking in 
the morning found him dead, he evidently having 
just passed away. 

Mr. Shaw was born in Berkshire, September 11, 



148 MARTHA EMILY 

1824, on the same farm where he lived and died. 
October 24, i860, he was married to Harriet E. Free- 
man of Speedsville, who survives him. He leaves 
one son, William J. Shaw. Mr. Shaw was one of the 
oldest inhabitants of the town and highly respected 
by all who knew him. He gave at one time great 
attention to animal breeding, raising the finest carri- 
age horses in this section of the country, and had a 
very fine herd of Shorthorn cattle, of which he was 
always justly proud. He had been a large dairyman 
and took great interest in this industry. He was for 
several years vice-president of The New York State 
Dairymen's Association, was one of the founders of 
the Northern Tioga Agricultural Society, and one of 
its directors until old age no longer permitted, but 
always taking a great interest in the success of this 
society. He was a member of the Congregational 
Church, having united with that church when thir- 
teen years of age. 

Harriet and William Shaw's children were: 
William Freeman, b. July 11, 1866; Robert 
Henry, b. November 29, 1871, d. July 19, 
1882; Lewis Talmage, b, June 4, 1873, d. 
July 15, 1882. They also adopted, Nov. 23, 
1865, Charles Carpenter, son of Mrs. Shaw's 
sister, Louisa. Charles was born November 
14, 1865, and died April 28, 1884. Will- 
iam was m. November 29, 1888, to Florence, 
daughter of Charles Harrington and Sarah 
Davis of Harford Mills, N. Y. Mrs. Shaw 
lives with her son at Berkshire. 



MARTHA EMILY 149 

Louisa Maria Freeman was married June i6, 
1855, to George Carpenter, born May 19, 
1834, son of Daniel Carpenter and Ruth Snow 
of Berkshire, N. Y. Mrs. Carpenter died 
November 23, 1865, in Berkshire. Mr. Car- 
penter now lives in Maine, N. Y. Their 
children were Sarah Blanche, born December 
17, 1856; Frank, b. July 11, 1858, d. No- 
vember 30, 1869; Laura Givens, October 2, 
1 86 1, and Charlie, or Charese, November 14, 
1865. The mother died when Charles was 
nine days old, and he was adopted by his 
aunt, Mrs. Shaw. 

Sarah B, Carpenter was married December i, 
1875, to P. R. Whiting, son of Samuel Whit- 
ing, of Speedsville, N. Y. ; they live at Cort- 
land, N. Y. Their children were: Ross S., 
b. July 23, 1877; Fred G., October 10, 1879; 
Charles P., December 26, 1882; Ethel Lou- 
ise, July 18, 1886; Glen, September 18. 1889; 
Ray, May 21, 1891, d. June 5, 1891; Caroline 
Frances, July 15, 1894, "^"^^ Blanche, March 
21, 1897. RossS., May 10, 1897, i^- Pearl 
Wickes, daughter of George Emmett and 
Anna Alida Wickes; they live at Berkshire, 
N. Y. , and have children, Marlea Purley, b. 
September 10, 1898, Laura Doris, February 
24, 1903, and George Earl, December 29, 



150 MARTHA EMILY 

1905. Fred G. m. August 22, 1906, Sylvia 
A., daughter of John and Anna Holmes of 
Cortland, N. Y. ; they have one child, Ruth, 
b. August 22, 1908, and live at Cortland. 
Charles P., m. May 3, 1904, Lilian M., b. 
January 20, 1883, daughter of Franklin and 
Mary Stebbins of Truxton, N. Y. ; they live 
at Canastota, N. Y. , and have one child Rob- 
ert Stebbins, b. February 15, 1908. 
Laura G. Carpenter was married February 
24. 1882, to William E., born September i, 
1858, son of Orlando Prentice and Jane King 
of Belvidere, 111. They reside at Newark 
Valley, N. Y., and have one daughter, Pearl 
Maria, b. February 11, 1886. 

Frances Henrietta Freeman was married May 
24, 1882, to David B. Cooper, son of Andrew 
Cooper and Sallie McGilvray of Sterling, N. 
Y. Mr. Cooper is a general agent for the 
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Compa- 
ny. His first wife was Theresa Jennie, daugh- 
ter of James Smith, of Sterling, N. Y., and 
they had four children: Amy B., b. July 30, 
1866, George N., July 13, 1869, B. Ives, 
November 26, 1874, and Walter J., July 2, 
1879. The mother died February 8, 1881. 
The daughter and two younger {?ons took 
full courses at Syracuse University. Amy 



MARTHA EMILY 151 

B. was m. May 23, 1893, to C. William 
Wurster; they live in New York, and Mr. 
Wurster is with the Stearns Auto. Company, 
Broadway, New York. George N. m. Au- 
gust 7, 1895, Mabel K. Lewis, and is in the 
insurance business with his father; they have 
two children, David Knox, b. September 2, 
1897, ^^<i Charlotte Frances, b. July 7, IQ02. 
B. Ives m. Frances Meyers, lives in Syra- 
cuse, and is manager of a branch of the Gen- 
eral Chemical Companj^ of New York; their 
children are David Ives, b. March 2, 1907, 
and Frances H., b. June 29, 1908. Walter 
is an architect with the Great Neck Improve- 
ment Company, and lives with Bramwell Da- 
vis, Great Neck, L. I. 

Lewis Newell Freeman was married October 3, 
1870, in Omaha, Neb., to Celia Weeks, born 
October 3, 1848, daughter of Joseph Weeks 
and Imogene Cookson of Kansas City, Mo., 
formerly of Niagara County, N. Y. They 
live at Crawford, Neb., and he is a dealer in 
general merchandise. Their children are 
Clifton Leslie, born May 8, 1872; Ethel Lou- 
ise, September 19, 1875, d. October 6, 1876; 
Lulu Marguerite, August 25, 1883, and Beth 
Imogene October 13, 1886. Clifton Leslie 
resides at Belle Fourche, S. Dak.; on Sep- 



152 MARTHA EMILY 

tember 8, 1897, ^^ married Kate M., born 
April 19, 1865, daughter of Walter and M. 
Louise Buncher of Lincoln, Neb. ; they have 
four children, Genevieve Evelyn, b. January 
12, 1899, Newell Edwin, February 8, 1902, 
Lora Louise, May 28, 1906, and Charles 
Leslie, August 22, 1908. Beth Imogenewas 
m. July 12, 1908, to Walter S., son of John 
Henry and Ellen C. Wood ; they live at Ter- 
ry, S. Dak. 

Henry A. Freeman married September 2 1 , 1875, 
Elva, daughter of Sherrard Slater of Caro- 
oline Center, N. Y. Their only child, Eliz- 
abeth Emily, was born in Caroline February 
23, 1881. About 1892 they removed to New 
York city and Henry was secretary of a 
branch of the New York Central Railroad 
Young Men's Christian Association. June 
21, 1893, the daughter died. Elva also died 
while their home was in New York. Early 
in 1894 Henry went to Allegheny City, Pa., 
and died there September 14 of the same 
year. 



DANIEL ORVILLE SURDAM 



Daniel Orville Surdam was born at Vernon, 
N. Y., February i, 1814. He was not as fond 
of books as his brothers and sisters and was the 
only one of the children who did not teach school, 
but when his teachers offered prizes for certain 
tasks he would spend his evenings upon the floor 
by the fireplace and generally was the winner. 

When twenty-one j^ears of age he hired out 
to Harry Hay, and after seven years of service, 
like Jacob of old, he took his daughter in marri- 
age. Mary Maria, daughter of Harry and Mary 
Hay, born July 10, 1823, was married to Daniel 
Orville Surdam May 29, 1842. He bought a 
farm adjoining that of his father-in-law, about 
one and one-half miles west of Hunts Corners, 
and there he spent the remainder of his life. The 
wife died March 9, 1884, and he followed her 
May 9, 1892. He was a successful farmer, and 
for several years was supervisor of the town of 
Lapeer. Orville and Mary had two children. 

153 



154 DANIEL ORVILLE 

Frances Matilda Surdam, born May 24, 1846, 
was married June 8, 1866, to Talma Hill, 
born December 27, 1841, son of Ferris and 
Hannah Dimick Hill of Roxbury, Delaware 
Co., N. Y. They lived on the homestead 
for several years but now reside in Cortland, 
N. Y. They have three children: 

Orville Surdam, b. June 19, 1870, m. Laura 
C. Walker August 13, 1893; they have had 
three children, Lloj^d W., b. September 28, 
1894, ^' June 14, 1900; Ralph, b. October 
18, 1897, ^^^ Mary Elizabeth, July 5, 1901; 
they live on the Orville Surdam homestead. 
Mary Matilda, b. January 12, 1873, was m. 
August 13, 1891, to Jason W., son of George 
W. and Francis E. Goodale of Marathon; 
their children are, Julian Hill, b. November 
14, 1892, Genevieve Lucile, April 14, 1897, 
and Francis Roderick, April 26, 1898. Mrs. 
Goodale and her children live at Cortland, 
N. Y. 

Grace Elizabeth, b. June 19, 1881, lives with 
her mother in Cortland. 

Mary Elizabeth, second daughter of Daniel Or- 
ville and Mary M. Surdam, w^as born July 
13, 185 1. As a young lady she was excep- 
tionallj^ bright and promising, but when six- 



DANIEL ORVILLE 155 

teen years of age, and while attending school 
in Cortland she contracted typhoid fever 
which terminated in pneumonia, and she 
died September 14, 1867. 



CHARLES ORSON SURDAM 



Charles Orson Surdam was born at Marathon 
November 22, 18 17. When a j^oung man he was 
unusually bright and active, an athlete, an 
expert rifleman, and a violinist. He taught 
school for a few winters, the last being at Caro- 
line. When about twenty-five years of age, and 
without any known cause he suffered a mental 
breakdown. Some believed it was principally 
due to the Millerite excitement, for many minds 
became unbalanced when William Miller preached 
and fifty thousand people believed that the world 
would come to an end in 1843. He regained to a 
considerable degree his mental faculties, his mem- 
ory especially being good, and he occasionally 
paid visits to his relatives. His physical health 
was always good and he lived to be an old man. 
He died February 6, 1893, ^^^ was buried in the 
cemetery at Richford Hill. 



156 



STATISTICS 157 

There have been one hundred and ninety- 
four direct descendants of Daniel and Letty Sur- 
dam, and one hundred and twenty-five are living 
at the present time — August lo, 1909 — as fol- 
lows: 

Born Now Living 

Children 8 00 

Grandchildren , 41 19 

Great-grandchildren 74 45 

Great-great-grandchildren .... 65 55 

Great-great-great-grandchildren 6 6 

Totals 194 125 

The descendants came through the several 

branches of the family as follows: 

Born Living 

Eliza 37 28 

Jerusha 38 17 

Edward 29 18 

Ivetty 35 23 

Martha Emily 41 30 

Orville 12 9 

Eighty-eight have married into the family 
and sixty-two of them are now living, making 
the present total membership one hundred and 
eighty-seven. 

The names Surdam, Akins and Wattles will, 
with those now living, pass from our register, 
and from the list of those who may attend our 
meetings, because there are no sons or grandsons 
to perpetuate them. The name Johnson seems 



158 



STATISTICS 



likely to share the same fate. The Freeman name 
will probably continue through the two sons of 
Clifton L. Freeman of Belle Fourche, S. Dak. But 
we trust that all the descendants, though bearing 
other names, will honor their fathers and mothers 
and their grandfathers and grandmothers and, 
by annual gatherings and otherwise, will also 
keep green the memory of the forty-one * ' first 
cousins," the grandchildren of our pioneer an- 
cestors, Daniel and Letty Surdam. 



SARAH SURDAM FITCH 



Sarah (Sally) Surdam was born at Salisbury, 
Conn., January 14, 1779, and when eighteen 
years of age she married David Fitch. We know 
nothing of the ancestors of Mr. Fitch, but very 
likely they were among the early English settlers 
who became quite prominent, and for whom Fitch- 
burg, Mass., was named. 

John Fitch, who was born at East Windsor, 
Conn., January 21, 1743, was armorer in the mil- 
itary service during the Revolution and a survey- 
or for the Government. He also, twenty years 
before Fulton built the " Clermont," constructed 
a steam barge which was used on the Delaware 
River for nearly two years. 

Sarah Surdam and David Fitch, who was 
born May 2, 1768, were married in Connecticut 
in November, 1796, and removed to Chenango 
County, N. Y. , thence to Marathon, where their 
family and the family of Daniel Surdam lived in 
the same house for two or three years. From 

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160 SARAH 

there they removed in 1819 or 1820 to Richford 
and settled in the southern part of what was 
later known as Richford Hill, about two miles 
from Richford village, a mile nearly south from 
the place where Daniel Surdam located a year or 
two later, and about a mile and a half north from 
the home of Peter Perry. 

Mr. Fitch was a successful farmer and took 
good care of his large family. He died February 
24, 1846, aged nearly seventy-eight years, and 
Mrs. Fitch died February 18, 1866, aged eighty- 
seven. 

Their children were, Lucetta, born 1798; 
Oramel, 1800; Amanda, June, 1804; Jane, 1806; 
Adoniram, April i, 1808; John, February 28, 
181 1 ; Sarah Eliza, 1814; Lydia Cornelia, March 
23, 1817. 

Lucetta died when two years of age. 

Oramel remained on the homestead during the 
life-time of his parents and until a few years 
after the death of John and his wife, when 
the family was broken up and the farm sold. 
In November, 1868, he went west and lived 
a year or two with Adoniram, after which 
he returned and spent the last twenty-one 
years of his life with Eliza at Caroline Cen- 



SARAH 161 

ter, where he died April 14, 1892. From 
the Ithaca Jottrnal : 

Death has again entered our neighborhood and re- 
moved from our midst one of the oldest and most 
respected citizens, Mr. Oramel Fitch, aged ninety- 
one years. Death came quite suddenly from an or- 
ganic disease of the heart. The funeral services 
were held at his home last Saturday, conducted by 
the Rev. A. F. Brown. Interment in the Richford 
cemetery. 



Amanda Fitch was married in 182 1 to Charles 
Wheaton, son of Abner Wheaton and Ruth 
Comstock of Kilawog, N. Y. They had four 
children, Ruth, born October 12, 1823, Ma- 
son S., July 31, 1826, and George and Lou- 
ise, who died in infancy. When Ruth and 
Mason w^ere quite young their father left 
them and their mother and eloped with the 
mother's younger sister, Jane. The state- 
ment of Mason in regard to them is: " They 
went to Chautauqua County and we don't 
know very much about them. They had 
children, but we don't know how many or 
when they were born. They lived and died 
in Jamestown. ' ' By economy and with some 
assistance from her father and brothers 
Amanda kept her little family together, and 
in turn her children gave her a good home in 



162 SARAH 

her old age. She died November 27, 1877, 
aged seventy-three years. 

Ruth Wheaton was married January 17, 
1843, to David Clark, son of Joseph Clark 
and Fanny Persons of Richford. They lived 
on the " Catskill Turnpike," one or two 
miles west from Richford, Their children 
were: Frances Louise, b. November 7, 1843, 
Alice Josephine, November 11, 1845, Mary 
Adelaide, February 4, 1847, Ruth Delia, July 
18, 1850, Emma Amanda, October 18, 1853, 
John Josiah, February 7, 1857, ^^^ Charles 
Rand, September, 1859. Mary, Emma and 
Charles died in October, i860, and the father 
January 27, 1861. After the death of Mr. 
Clark and Mrs. Wheaton (Mason's wife), 
Ruth and Mason and their mother lived 
together on Mason's farm about one-half 
mile south of the schoolhouse on Rich- 
ford Hill; Ruth died April 18, 1883. Fran- 
ces Louise Clark was m. March 7, i860, to 
Henry Robison, son of Solomon Robison and 
Johanna Freeman of Caroline; they lived at 
Slaterville Springs, and had one child, Emma 
Adelaide, b. November 17, 1863, and d. Au- 
gust 15, 1869; Mr. Robison died May i, 
1908. The Ithaca 7^2^ ^7za/ said: 



SARAH 



163 



The death of Henry H. Robison occurred at his 
home in Slaterville Springs on Friday. Mr. Robi- 
son had been an invalid for about two years and was 
nearly sixty-seven years of age. He was born and 
had spent all his life in the town of Caroline Mr 
Robison was a well-known farmer and had many 
acquaintances in this city. He was universally liked 
and leaves a large number of friends. For the past 
twenty-five years, until he became ill, he scarcely 
missed a Saturday when he did not come to this city 
to sell butter and other produce. 

He was prominent in the work of the Methodist 
Church, and for many years was leader of the choir 
taking great interest in training the children for 
special days. He was a Republican in politics and 
tor some time was chairman of the Republican town 
committee. 

^ The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at two 
o clock from his late residence, the Rev G C Ta 
cobs of the Slaterville Methodist Church, officiating. 

Alice Josephine Clark was married March 
25, 1868, to Albert R., son of Charles and 
Clarissa Benjamin of Slaterville, N. Y. • they 
live at Clarks, Neb., and have five children 
Charles M., b. May 20, 1872, Albert C b 
June 3, 1875, Fitch C, May 31, 1877, Ar* 
thur C, April 7, 1883, and Carrie S. June 
I, 1886; Charles M, Benjamin was m' Au- 
gust 2, 1897 to May Wheeler, and they live 
near Bridgeport, Conn., their children are 
Alice Margaret, b. August 31, 1898, Albert 



164 SARAH 

Rial, April 19, 1900, Frances May, April 23, 
1905, d. November 19, 1905, Robert Irwin, 
September 23, 1906, and Herbert Heath, 
December 29, 1908; Albert C. and Fitch 
C. live at Belgrade, Neb. ; Albert was m. 
March 25, 1900, to Bethel Barber, and they 
have two or three children; and Fitch m. 
March 23, 1904, Mabel Spiker, and they 
have one or two children. Ruth Delia 

Clark was married March 7, 1867, to her 
mother's cousin (see Orson D. Fitch infra), 
John Josiah Clark was married August 
19, 1884, to Emma S., daughter of Isaac 
and Clarinda Hawn of Poland, Ohio, and 
they reside at Clarks, Neb. ; they have two 
children, Clara Delia, b. August 17, 1885, 
and John Duvere, b. July 15, 1900 ; Clara 
vi^as m. October 17, 1903, to Lee Hobart, 
and they live at Ogden, Utah. 

Mason S.Wheaton was married July 5, 1851, 
to Harriet Elliot, daughter of William B. El- 
liot and Paulina P. Luther of Richford, N. 
Y. Their children were Mary J., b. April 
28, 1852, and George Frank, November 15, 
1857. Mrs. Wheaton died September 13, 
1861, and August 11, 1867, Mr. Wheaton 
married for a second wife Mrs. Sophronia 
Wilcox, widow of Henry Wilcox and motho 



SARAH 165 

of Almond, Smith, John and Pamela Wilcox, 
Their children were, Harriet and Henry, 
twins, b. February 8, 1869, and Anna R., 
March 15, 1878. Mrs. Wheaton died March 
31, 1898, and Mr. Wheaton Sept. 17, 1903. 
Mr. Wheaton was a quiet, unostentatious 
man, and was highly respected by a large 
circle of acquaintances. He was a valuable 
citizen and a good neighbor, and in his home 
he was a kind and indulgent husband and 
father. He was especially gifted in music, 
being a violinist of superior ability and 
the leader of the church choir for many 
years. Mary J. Wheaton was m. May 24, 
1868, to Gardner F. , son of Edward Fel- 
lows; Gardner was b. June 15, 1849, and d. 
September 15, 1904; they had two children, 
Frank H. , b, in 1869, and Clara B. in 188 1; 
the widow and her daughter live at Harford 
Mills; Frank m. September 16, 1896, Clara 
Topping; they live at Cortland and have one 
child, Glen D., b. August 24, 1898. George 
Frank did not marry; his health has been 
poor — has some mental trouble — and is in a 
sanitarium in Independence, Iowa. Harriet 
Wheaton m. Wayland B., son of Job and 
Molancy Ayers of Richford, and they reside 
at Homer, N. Y. ; they were m. August 10, 



166 SARAH 

1887, and have had two children, Gertrude, 
b. June 18, 1888, and Lester, b. August 8, 
1890, d. October 12, 1890; Gertrude was m. 
March 10, 1907, to John W. Watson, b. 
April 12, 1887, son of Joseph A. Watson and 
Isabel S. Truman of Homer, N. Y.; they 
live at Homer, and have one child, Clifford 
Ayers, b. December 9, 1907. Henry Whea- 
ton fitted himself for school-teaching, and 
after being graduated from SjTacuse Uni- 
versity was principal of the public school 
at Fultonville, N. Y., and later at Tona- 
wanda, N. Y.; he is at present in the high 
school at Montclair, N. J.; June 27, 1900, 
he m. Mary E., daughter of James Henry 
and Charlotte Shelp of Fultonville; their 
children are Henry Holden, b. May 22, 1902, 
and James Shelp, June 19, 1904. Anna R. 
lives with her brother Henry at Montclair. 

Adoniram Fitch and Diantha Colby, daughter 
of Daniel Colby of Richford Hill, were mar- 
ried November 10, 1828. They had a good 
farm adjoining the Fitch homestead on the 
north, and lived there until about 1863, when 
they removed to Jones County, Iowa, where 
he died March 20, 1892. His wife died De- 
cember 24, 1 88 1. They had seven children: 
Daniel W., born October 18, 1850, died 



SARAH 167 

March 24, 1879; Jane E., July 4, 1852; Ora- 
mel, 1855; Ida M., August 13, 1856; John 
S., March 5, 1859; NelHe, May 30, 1864, 
and Edwin, June i, 1869. 

Jane E. married GustavusStreeter, and they 
live at Central City, Neb. Their children 
are, Orson, b. 1869, Emory O., 1872, Ida 
May, 1874, and Lewis, 1878, d. 1881. Or- 
son m. Etta Shaw; Emory, Elizabeth Rob- 
erson; and Ida, W. A. Newton. 

Ida M. married Addison W., son of H. W. 
Hallock. They live at Clarks, Neb., and 
have had four children: Milo E., b, April 
12, 1880, d. October 5, 1881; Delta Maud, 
August I, 1882; Harry N., June 19, 1884; 
and Earl R., July 23, 1887. Delta Maud m. 
Ford S. Shenk, and they have three children, 
Zola H,, b. April 26, 1900; George F., De- 
cember 28, 1902, and Claud, June 10, 1905. 

John S. and Edwin live at Markersville, Al- 
berta, Canada, John married Ida Oliver, 
and Edwin, May Wynne. 

Nellie married William Smith, and they live 
at Canyon City, Oregon. 

John Fitch was married July 4, 1844, to Maria 
Moore, daughter of Jesse Moore and Cyn- 



168 SARAH 

thia Trumbull of Richford, N. Y. Mrs. 
Fitch died probably in 1856, and Mr. Fitch 
February 12, 1861. He was very highly re- 
garded by all who knew him, and sometime 
after his death a memorial service was held 
in the church which he had been largely in- 
strumental in building. The church was 
filled with sympathizing friends and the ser- 
vice was unusually solemn and impressive. 
Their children were, Elizabeth S., born 
March 12, 1846; Orson D., September 8, 
1847; Cynthia M., October 6, 1849; AnnE., 
October 28, 1851; Hubert John, October 31, 
1853; and Adele M., July 29, 1856. 

Elizabeth S. was married January 13, 1864, 
to Orrin P., son of Ransom Rich and Miri- 
am Gardner of Caroline, N. Y. They had 
seven children: Ransom J., born January 7, 
1865, William P., January 22, 1869, Hubert 
O., March 14, 1871, Lewis G., April 6, 1873, 
Anna M., June 15, 1875, Albert O., April 
14, 1877, and Kittie M., March 15, 1879. 
The mother died June 5, 1908, after a linger- 
ing illness which she endured with Christian 
fortitude. Ransom J. m. December 10, 
1889, Anna R., daughter of John and Sarah 
J. Knapp of Moravia, N. Y. ; they live in 
Caroline and have two children, Bessie R., b. 



SARAH 169 

May 2, 1891, and Francis O., May 8, 1895. 
William P. was m. October 4, 1891, to E. 
Maude, daughter of Henry Speed, and lives 
at Slaterville Springs; they have one son, 
Clifford Speed, b. November 16, 1895. Hu- 
bert O. m. February 16, 1898, Mary J., 
daughter of T. Meeks and Edna Meeks of 
Speedsville, N. Y. ; they live at Speedsville. 
Lewis G. m. December 20, 1894, Mary B., 
daughter of Charles and Harriet Earsley of 
Blackman Hill; they live at Berkshire, N. 
Y. , and have four children: Hilma Gene- 
vieve, b. June 29, 1896, Hilda Elizabeth, 
November 16, 1897, Mabel Leona, February 
24, 1905, and Albert Merle, June i, 1907. 
Anna M. was m. November 7, 1897, ^^ Ed- 
gar, son of Luther Welch and Kate Houk 
of Richford; they live at Brookton and have 
four children: Claude, b. June 24, 1900, 
Leonard, February 2, 1903, Albert E., Octo- 
ber 9, 1905, and Cornelia Bernice, July 28, 
1908. Albert O. and Kittie are unmarried 
and live with their father in Caroline. 

Orson David Fitch was married March 7, 
1867, to Ruth Delia Clark (see page 164). 
In the spring of 1869 they removed to Ne- 
braska, and in 1903 to Evarts, Alberta, Can- 
ada. In 1904 Mr. Fitch wrote: "We have 



170 SARAH 

been here almost two years. It is a new 
country, but we like it very much. We 
have 960 acres of land, all in one body, and 
we can do as much work as we want to." 
They have had eight children: Alice Aman- 
da, born December 23, 1867, died Novem- 
ber, 1873, Albert Henry, January 12, 1870, 
Earl Burdette, July 19, 1875, Paul Benja- 
min, November 3, 1877, Robert Guy, March 
30, 1880, died November 5, 1884, Clarence 
Hubert, February 2, 1883, Orson David, 
November 22, 1887, died February 27, 1888, 
and Lewis John, September 6, 1892. Albert 
Henry was m. July 24, 1895, to Mabelle 
Louise Miles; their children are, Orson 
Leonard, b. May 18, 1896, Alice Myra, July 
28, 1898, d. April 8, 1899, and Richard Miles, 
April 3, 1900. Earl Burdette was m. Jan. 
18, 1898, to Edith Maria Baugh; they have 
four children: Orson George, b. September 
7, 1899, Delia Pauline, November 12, 1900, 
Mina Elizabeth, February 19, 1903, and 
Robert Guy, June 28, 1904. Paul Benjamin 
was m. April 29, 1904, to Geneva May Pat- 
rick; they live at Beaver Crossing, Neb., 
and have three children, Cecil Clark, b. Oc- 
tober 10, 1905, Ruth Alta, March 12, 1907, 
and Alice Josephine, January 6, 1909. 



SARAH 171 

Cynthia M. was married Febriiar}^ 26, 1870, 
to Byron Wattles (see page 112). 

Ann K. was married May 24, 1868, to Smith 
Wilcox, son of Henry Wilcox and Sophro- 
nia Berry. They live between the school- 
house and the Mason Wheaton home. Mrs. 
Wilcox is the only descendant of the Sur- 
dams or Fitches who lives in the neighbor- 
hood of the old homesteads. They have had 
three children: Almond, b. October 24, 1870, 
d. September 4, 1872, a daughter b. June 9, 
1872, d. June 18, 1872, and Gertrude, b. 
February 18, 1875, d. April 2, 1875. 

Hubert J. is unmarried and lives with his 
brother Orson at Everts, Alberta, Canada. 

Adele M. was married September, 1879, to 
Charles H. Buck, and died December 13, 
1883. They lived at Homer, N. Y., and 
Mrs. Buck died there. Mr. Buck died in 
Springfield, Mo., in December, 1894. They 
had one daughter, Edna, who was born in 
Homer, September 27, 1883. She is unmar- 
ried and lives at " Greystone," Bronxwood 
Park, New York city. 

Sarah EHza Fitch, born September 3, 1814, was 
married January 2, 1845, to Calvin Clark, 



172 SARAH 

Jr., son of Calvin Clark and Judith Hatha- 
way of Caroline Center. Mr. Clark died 
September 15, 1864, and Mrs. Clark Septem- 
ber 25, 1902. Their children were Anna So- 
phia, born January 9, 1846, Robert Charles, 
June 14, 1848, and Sabra Electa, May 3, 

1853. 

Anna S. was married February i, 1872, to 
P'rancis A., son of James H. Snow and Sarah 
J. Taft of Caroline Center. They live at 
Caroline Center, and have three children, 
Lamont Clark, b. December 10, 1873, Fanny 
Louise, January 8, 1878, and Arthur Taft, 
June 12, 1882. Lamont was m. January 29, 

1907, to Frances, daughter of Richard and 
Helen Whittaker of Caroline Center; they 
live at Caroline Center, and have one child, 
Edith Elizabeth, b. October 4, 1907. Fanny 
is unmarried. Arthur was m. December 29, 

1908, to Edith Whittaker, and they live at 
Canajoharie, N. Y. 

Robert C. was married in 1881 to Jessie D. 
Snow, a sister of Francis A. Snow, who mar- 
ried Anna S. Clark. They live at Caroline 
Center, as does also Sabra Electra, the 
younger daughter. 



SARAH 173 

Lydia Cornelia Fitch, the youngest daughter 
of David and Sally Fitch, born March 23, 
1 8 17, was married April 29, 1841, to George 
P. Clark, brother of David Clark, the hus- 
band of Ruth Wheaton. They lived about 
one mile west of Richford until 1857, then 
removed to Elmira, N. Y. , where Mr. Clark 
died March 20, 1868. For many years the 
widow lived at Ovid, Mich., with her son 
David, then returned to the East and spent 
the last years of her life with her daughter, 
Mrs. John Davis. She was the last of her 
generation, and died May 10, 1906, aged 
eighty-nine years. The Ithaca Journal of 
May 15, 1906, said: 

At two o'clock p. M. Saturday, May 12, at the resi- 
dence of Mrs. John Davis of CaroHne Center, oc- 
curred the funeral of her mother, Mrs. Cornelia 
Clark, widow of George Clark. The Rev. F. E. L,ott 
of the M. E. Church officiated. Interment was made 
in the cemetery at Slaterville. Mrs. Clark was born 
the 22d of March, 1817. One who knew her well 
says: "She was an earnest, devoted Christian wom- 
an, faithful and consecrated in all her work, and 
truly merited the ' Well done, thou good and faith- 
ful servant.' " She leaves to mourn her loss two 
daughters and three sons: Mrs. John Davis, Caroline 
Center, Mrs. Frank Russell, Detroit, Mich., George 
Clark, Ovid, Mich., Judson Clark, Port Huron, 
Mich., and David Clark, Caroline Center. 



174 SARAH 

Mr. and Mrs. Clark had six childreu, David 
F., born Ma}^ 9, 1842, Eliza C, November 
4, 1844, died July 26, 1865, Emily Alberti- 
na, February 16, 1848, Frank C, May 3, 
1850, George P., May 6, 1853, ^°^ Charles 
Judson, August i, i860. 

David is unmarried and lives at Caroline 
Center. 

Eliza was married in May, i860, to George, 
son of Nathaniel Duubar and Mary Jones of 
Erin, N.Y. They had one son, Fred Fitch, 
born September 26, 1864. He married May 
8, 1887, Florence May, daughter of Eewis 
Cole and Alice Dodge of Freeville, N. Y.; 
they live at Van Etten, N. Y. , and have four 
children, Ernest Levern, b. April 25, 1889, 
Alice Alene, July 11, 1891, Nina Belle, Jan- 
uary 22, 1895, and Mary Antoinette, August 
17, 1896. 

Emily Albertina married John, son of Isaac 
and Lovina Davis, of Buffalo, N. Y. They 
live at Caroline Center, and have one daugh- 
ter, MaryL. , born August 3, 1878. Mary 
m. John H. Brink, of Caroline Center, son 
of Thomas R. and Maria Brink; they have 
four children, Paul Davis, b. December 3, 
1898, Ruth Albertina, October 14, 1900, 



SARAH 175 

Ethel C, October i, 1905, and Elizabeth, 
May 23, 1908. 

Frank C. married Warren, son of Herman 
Russell and Maria Sherwood, of Enfield, N. 
Y. They live in Detroit, Mich., and have 
two children, Clark A., b. August 8, 1870, 
and Sarah Albertina, April i, 1873. Clark 
A. m. March 25, 1899, Maria, daughter of 
George Hoffman and Louisa Frederick of 
Germany; they live in Detroit, and have two 
children, Harold Ernest, b. April 7, 1900, 
and Gladys Albertine, January 31, 1903. 
Sarah Albertina was m. June 10, 1897, ^^ 
Louis W., son of William and Emma Linde- 
man of Detroit; their home is in Detroit, 
and they have one child, Louis W., b. July 
14, 1900. 

George P. m. Lily Dehoren and they live at 
Ovid, Mich. Their children are Fred D., b. 
March 12, 1883, and Frank R., b. February 
3, 1885. Fred D. m. 

and they have one child, Warren George b. 
July 15, 1907. 

Charles Judson was married in 1891 to Caro- 
line, daughter of Sanford and Rhoda Mack 
of Middlebury, Mich. Their home is at Port 
Huron, Mich. They have no children. 



REUNIONS 



Thursday, August 23, 1900, occurred the 
first family reunion of the descendants of Daniel 
and Letty Slater Surdam at the pleasant home of 
Mr. and Mrs. William Shaw, near Berkshire, Ti- 
oga County. The day was an ideal one and en- 
joyed by forty-two of the relatives. Shortlj^ past 
the hour dinner was announced, and soon around 
the tables in the spacious dining-room, which 
were laden with the best capable hands could 
furnish, were seated a congenial and happy com- 
pany, who did ample justice to the good things 
placed before them; after which all were seated 
in the parlors and listened to a short history of 
the Surdam family related by Seth Akins, aged 
seventy-one, the oldest relative present. F. M. 
Surdam read a letter from his brother, Charles E. 
Surdam of Morristown, N. J., in which he gave 
something of the genealogy of the family, and 
also expressed regrets for himself and brother 
Seth and their wives at not being able to be pres- 

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REUNIONS 177 

ent. Mrs. Shaw read a very interesting letter 
from her sister, Mrs. Matilda Freeman Gates of 
Leroy, Pa. (See page 76.) 

The following officers were chosen for the 
coming year: 

President — Seth Akins, Speedsville. 
Vice-President — Byron Wattles, Caroline. 
Secretary — F. M. Surdam, Hunt's Corners. 
Treasurer — William Shaw, Jr., Berkshire. 
Corresponding Secretary — Mrs. William Shaw, Jr., 
Berkshire. 

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Wattles 
was chosen for the reunion August 21, 1901. 

After the business of the day was completed 
all arranged themselves in the grove near by and 
Harry Swift of Richford took a photograph of 
the company. 

Following are the names of those present: 
Seth Akins and wife, Speedsville; Seymour Hults 
and wife, Francis M. Surdam and wife, Lee John- 
son and wife, Mrs. Frances Surdam Hill and son 
Orville Hill, Hunts Corners; Byron Wattles and 
wife, Caroline; Henry Robison and wife, Slater- 
ville; William Prentice, wife and daughter, New- 
ark; William Rich and wife, Lewis Rich, wife 
and two children. Ransom Rich, wife and two 
children, Caroline; William Shaw and wife, Will- 
iam Shaw, Jr., and wife, Berkshire; Mason 
S. Wheatou and daughter Anna, West Hill; 



178 REUNIONS 

Mrs. Emily Akius Gore, Speedsville; Mrs. Zelia 
Akias Baker, Oliu Baker, Henry Baker, Fair- 
field; Frank Baker, Speedsville; Mrs. Charles 
Higgins, Caroline; Mrs. Jane Johnson Day, Cur- 
tis Day, Grace Day, Lisle. 

Mrs. Lke Johnson, Secretary. 



The second reunion was held August 21, 
1 90 1, at the home of Byron Wattles, Caroline. 
Those present were: 

Mrs. Matilda Freeman Gates, William T. Shaw and 
wife, H. S. Akius and wife, Seymour Hulls and wife, 
Byron Wattles and wife and son Carlton, Mrs. Zelia Ba- 
ker, Mrs. Emily Gore, Mrs. Frances Freeman Cooper, 
Sara Akins, F. M. Surdam and wife, Mrs. Almira Wat- 
tles, Mrs. Eliza Clark, Sabra E. Clark, Robert C. Clark 
and wife, John Davis and wife, W. E. Prentice, wife and 
daughter Pearl, Smith Wilcox and wife, William K. 
Boice and wife and Julia Boice, Mrs. Nancy Wattles, S. 
C. Whiting and child, Hubert Wattles, Ivee Johnson, A. 
Deville Johnson, Mason S. Wheaton, Anna R. Wheaton, 
Mrs. Jane L. Day, Charity Bliss, Grant W. Bliss, Benja- 
min Wattles, Anna Snow, Fanny L. Snow, Mrs. O. P. 
Rich, Ransom J. Rich and wife and Bessie Rich, Francis 
O. Rich, Lewis G. Rich and wife, Albert Rich, Kittie M. 
Rich, Mrs. Edgar E. Welch, Mrs. H. H. Robison, H. O. 
Rich and wnfe, E. E. Hults, wife and Murilla and Har- 
old Hults, Charles Francis Surdam, Warren Baker, wife 
and Joseph and Walter Baker, Gertrude Ayers, Frank C. 
Baker, W. A. Baker, wife and son Carlton, R. C. Akins, 



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wife and Frank B. Akins, Orlo A. Baker, wife and son 
Seth E. Baker, U. L. Robins, Rev. I. R. Wilson.— 85. 

BIRTHS DURING THE YEAR: 

Oct. 23, 1900. Orpha Thompson. See p. 72 

Nov. 12, " Delia Pauline Fitch. 170 

17, '* Ransom Perry. 68 

Feb. I, 1 901. Edith R. Johnson. 74 

Apr. 20, '* Myrtle Irene Bowie. 95 

July 5, " Mary Elizabeth Hill. 154 

No marriages or deaths have been reported. 

F. M. SuRDAM, Secretary. 



The third annual reunion of the Surdam 
family was held August 21, 1902, at the home of 
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Surdam at Hunts Corners, 
sixty-one being present. 

At the business meeting, which followed a 
bountiful dinner, the following were elected offi- 
cers for the ensuing year: 

President — F. M. Surdam. 
Secretary — E. E. Hulls. 
Treasurer — Seymour Hulls. 

It was also voted to hold our annual gather- 
ings on the third Wednesday in August. 

PRESENT. 
Francis M. Surdam, Rachel Bealtie Surdam, Charles 
E. Surdam, Mary F. Healh Surdam, Selh S. Surdam, 



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Lillie J. Wooster Surdam, Frances Freeman Cooper, Lee 
Johnson, Augusta Thompson Johnson, William T. Shaw, 
Harriet Freeman Shaw, S. S. Bliss, Charity Johnson 
Bliss, Grant M. Bliss, Lovicie Bliss McAlpine, Caroline 
M. Bliss, Eliza Johnson Bliss, Jane L. Johnson Day, Cur- 
tis H. Day, Grace A. Day, Mason S. Wheaton, Anna R. 
Wheaton, Talma Hill, Frances Surdam Hill, Orville S. 
Hill, Laura Walker Hill, Grace Elizabeth Hill, Mary 
Matilda Hill Goodale, Seymour Hults, Eliza Surdam 
Hults, William K. Boice, Georgianna W. Boice, H. H 
Watros, Julia Boice Watros, James W. Reed, Mary Wat- 
tles Reed, Chauncey Wattles Reed, Sarah Carpenter 
Whiting, Charles P. Whiting, Carrie F. Whiting, B. B. 
Wattles, Neenah Welch Wattles, Ransom J. Rich, Anna 
R. Rich, Francis O. Rich, Albert O. Rich, Martha L- 
Bradt, Henry Bradt, Fred Bradt, Iva Bradt, Mattie Bradt, 
Asa Cook, Elmer E. Hults, Murilla E. Hults, Harold E. 
Hults, Mabel Hunt Hults, Julian Hill Goodale, Gene- 
vieve Lucile Goodale, Francis Roderick Goodale, Ralph 
Hill, Mary Elizabeth Hill.— 6l. 

BIRTHS DURING THE YEAR: 

Oct. 14, 1901. Ruth Albertina Brink. 174 

Dec. II, " Edward Kenneth Reed. 102 

Feb. 8, 1902. Newell Edwin Freeman. 152 

Apr, 10, " Kathryn Edith West. iii 

July 17, " Asa J. Johnson. 74 

July 29, '* RuthTarbox. 72 

July 30, ** Henry Llewellyn Bowie. 95 

Aug. 4, ** Louisa Thompson. 72 



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MARRIAGES. 

Nov. 30, 1901. Daniel Martin Akins and 

Hester A. Knox. 94 

June 4, 1902. Lucy Woodford Wattles 

and Bert Roosa Mitchell. 1 1 1 

DEATHS. 

Apr. 24, 1902. Janette E. Merrick, wife of 

Lyman C. Perry. 74 

Mrs. K. E. Hults, Secretary. 



The fourth annual reunion of the Surdam 
family was held at the home of Lee Johnson at 
Hunts Corners August 21, 1903, the date having 
been changed to celebrate the sixty-ninth anni- 
versary of the date when he joined the Surdam 
forces. The following persons were present: 

Lee Johnson, Augusta T. Johnson, A. D. Johnson, 
KHzabeth Johnson Buckland, BeHnda Johnson Burgess, 
Augustine Lee Burgess, Mason S. Wheaton, Anna R. 
Wheaton, Francis M. Surdam, Rachel Beattie Surdam, 
Welthy C. Wattles, Benjamin Boice Wattles, Seth S. 
Surdam, Lillie J. W. Surdam, Seymour Hults, Eliza Sur- 
dam Hults, Elmer E. Hults, Mabel Hunt Hults, Murilla 
Eliza Hults, Harold Elmer Hults, Harriet E. Freeman 
Shaw, Matilda J. Freeman Gates, Frances Surdam Hill, 
Grace E. Hill, Julian Hill Goodale, Frances R. Goodale, 
Orville Surdam Hill, John Davis, Albertina Clark Davis, 
John H. Brink, Mary Davis Brink, Paul D. Brink, Ruth 
A. Brink, Jane L. Johnson Day, Curtis H. Day, Samuel 



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S. Bliss, Charity Johnson Bliss, Grant W. Bliss, Smith 
Wilcox, Ann E. Fitch Wilcox, Eliza Johnson Bliss, Asa 
Cook. — 43. 

The meeting was called to order by the pres- 
ident, F. M. Surdam. The report of the secretary, 
Elmer E. Hults, was read and approved; also the 
report of the treasurer, Seymour Hults. 

It was decided to hold the next meeting at 
the home of Hubert Wattles. The following of- 
ficers were elected: 

President — William Boice. 
Secretary — Byron Wattles. 
Treasurer — John Davis. 

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were assisted in en- 
tertaining by their son, A. Deville, and their 
daughters, Mrs. C. A. Burgess of Cincinnati, O., 
and Mrs. G. W. Buckland of Buffalo, N. Y. The 
day was perfect and tables were spread under an 
awning on the lawn. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jen- 
nings served the dinner, and their little grand- 
daughter, M. Vice Witty, presided at the lemon- 
ade table in the dining-room. 

Photographs of the company were taken by 
A. D. Johnson and Mrs. Buckland. 

Very old letters (dates not given) were read 
— written before envelopes and postage stamps 
were in use to Mrs. Letty Surdam Johnson, one 
from Persis Surdam of Potter Co., Penn., wife 



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of Ira Surdam, the other from Jerusha Wattles 
of Caroline. 

lyines composed by Letty Surdam before her 
marriage in 1832 were examined and read with 
interest. After her marriage to Harvey Johnson 
she tacked them in the back of the old family 
clock, and they are now preserved under glass by 
her son Lee. The paper on which they were 
written is yellow with age (see page 135). 

Although we meet to-day with great pleasure 
at again seeing each other, a feeling of sorrow 
intrudes upon our minds. We have to record 
several breaks in our family circle and we greatly 
miss familiar faces. Mrs. Eliza Fitch Clark, the 
oldest member of our circle, went home last Sep- 
tember; and in October occurred the death of 
Charles Higgins. In May of this year our be- 
loved cousin, William Shaw, was called to rest, 
and in the same month Mrs. Nancy Robinson 
Wattles passed away. As friends and relatives 
we are called to mourn; but to those of the home 
circle the loss must be deepest, and to them we 
extend our sincere sympathy. 

We have record of nine births, two marriages 
and four deaths. 





BIRTHS. 




July 7, 1902. 


Charlotte Frances Cooper. 


151 


Dec. 28, " 


George F. Shenk. 


167 



181 






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Jan. 


3^ 


1903. 


Gladys Albertine Russell. 


175 


Feb. 


2, 




Leonard Welch. 


169 




i6, 




William Gurdon Watros. 


no 




19, 




Mina Elizabeth Fitch. 


170 




24. 




Laura Doris Whiting. 


149 


Mar. 


7, 




Mildred G. Baker. 


93 


May 


22, 




Henry Holden Wheatou. 

MARRIAGES. 


166 


Aug. 


20, 


1902. 


Florence Helene Perry and 
John Williamson. 


71 


Sept. 


24, 


( ( 


Gertrude Smith and Will- 
iam Mitchell. 

DEATHS. 


109 


Sept. 


25, 


1902. 


Eliza Fitch Clark. 


171 


Oct. 


II, 


( ( 


Charles Higgins. 


100 


May 


4, 


1903. 


William T. Shaw. 


147 




31, 


( ( 


Nancy Robinson Wattles. 


no 








E. E. HuLTS, Secretary. 



The fifth annual reunion was held at the 
home of Hubert Wattles, Brookton, N. Y., Au- 
gust 17, 1904. The following persons were pres- 
ent: 

F. M. Surdam and wife, William K. Boice, F. C 
Baker, W. A. Baker and wife, R. J. Rich, Anna Rich, 
Smith Wilcox, Ann Wilcox, H. S. Akius and wife, Em- 
ily Akins Gore, Zelia Akins Baker, Matilda J. Freeman 



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Gates, Seymour Hults, Eliza Surdam Hults, Augusta 
Johnson, A. D.Johnson, Hubert Wattles and wife, Byron 
Wattles and wife, John C. Baker, C. S. Wattles, Mrs. John 
Davis, Mary B. Rich, Hilma G. Rich, Elizabeth Rich, 
L. G. Rich, Mary ly. Brink, Ruth A. Brink, Paul D. 
Brink, Kittie M. Rich, Bessie R. Rich, Francis G. Rich, 
Edgar E. Welch and wife, Claude A. Welch, Leonard B. 
Welch, Bert R. Mitchell and wife, H. H. Watros, O. S. 
Hill, C. ly. Davis, Eudora Davis, Mrs. F. A. Snow, Fan- 
ny Iv. Snow, F. A. Snow, John Davis, Mrs. Laura Walker 
Hill, W. P. Rich, Maud Speed Rich, Clifford Speed Rich, 
Mrs. O. P. Rich, Albert O. Rich, Charles Francis Sur- 
dam. — 59. 

The meeting was called to order by the pres- 
ident, William Boice, and the report of the secre- 
tary was read and approved; also the report of 
the treasurer, John Davis. It was decided to 
hold the next meeting at the home of Seth Akins. 

Officers elected: 

President — Francis A. Snow, Caroline Center, N. Y, 
Secretary — C. E. Surdam, Morristown, N. J. 
Treasurer — John Davis, Caroline Center, N. Y. 

The day was very pleasant and the lawn was 
clean and beautifully arranged for the occasion. 
The tables were filled to their utmost with the 
delicacies of the season. After luncheon visiting 
and handshaking with old friends was enjoyed. 
Next, some remarks were made by the Rev. I. B. 
Wilson, and we were entertained by his daugh- 
ter Edith. The follo\\ing letter from C. E. Sur- 
dam was read: 



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MoRRisTowN, N. J., August 4, 1904. 
Dear Cousins: 

I had anticipated the pleasure of meeting with 
you this year, but am not able to do so. I also regret 
that the register and family history are not yet com- 
pleted. I have found it quite difficult to obtain the 
addresses of some who are living, and almost impos- 
sible to secure full and complete records of several 
who have died. A few to whom I have written for 
information have neglected to reply, but nearly all 
have responded promptly, and I have greatly en- 
joyed renewing old acquaintances and forming new 
ones. We do not know each other as well as we 
ought to, but the annual meetings will accomplish a 
great deal in this direction. 

During the year I have spent a little time in the 
library of the Genealogical Society of New York, but 
have found nothing new in regard to our early ances- 
tors in this country or in Holland. 

In conclusion I M'ish to call your attention to a 
few facts which have come to my knowledge. Cor- 
nelia Fitch Clark, the last of the fifth generation, 
aged eighty-seven, is living at Ovid, Mich., and Ross 
S. Whiting's little daughters are the first of the ninth 
generation. 

Of the forty-one grandchildren of Daniel Surdam 
only one died in infancy, and one at the age of six- 
teen; all the others reached the full age of manhood 
and womanhood, and twent3^-two are still living at an 
average age of sixty-five years. 

This is a most remarkable record of longevity, 
but more remarkable is the fact that the six children 
of Eliza Surdam Akins, except Warren (who died 



REUNIONS 187 

from an injury), are all living at an average of sev- 
enty-two years. 

Sarah Surdam Fitch had twenty-two grandchil- 
dren, and fifteen, I believe, are now living, at an av- 
erage age of about fifty-four years. 

Jane Surdam Perry had twenty grandchildren, 
and eight survive, at an average of about sixty years. 

With kind regards I remain 

Very truly yours, C. E. Surdam. 

The time passed rapidly and we were soon 
obliged to take onr departure,, hoping to all meet 
one year from to-day at H. S. Akins', Speeds- 
ville. 

BIRTHS. 

Mar. 24, 1904. Mary Lucretia Hults. 124 

May 3, " Walter Harold Bliss. 141 

June 14, " Floyd William Everhart. 94 

19, *' James S. Wheaton. 166 

28, " Robert Guy Fitch. 170 

MARRIAGES. 

Oct. 17, 1903. Clara Delia Clark and Lee 

Hobart. 164 

Dec. 21, " Leslie Freeman Gates and 

Josephine R. Lamson. 146 
Jan. 4, 1904. Harriet E. Carpenter and 

John W. Bowie. 96 

Mar. 23, '• Fitch C. Benjamin and 

Mabel Spiker. 164 



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Apr. 29, 1904. Paul Benjamin Fitch and 

Geneva May Patrick. 170 

Apr. 30, " Asahel O. Cook and Belle 

Richardson. 143 

DKATHS. 

Mason S. Wheaton (son of Amanda Fitch 
Wheaton) attended the reunion a year ago, and 
was in his usual health until about the 15th of 
September, when he was suddenly taken ill and 
died on the 17th, at the advanced age of 77 years, 
I month and 18 days. His funeral was held on 
the 20th, and he was buried in the cemetery on 
Richford Hill. See page 165. 

Mary Baker, daughter of Zelia Akins Baker, 
and wife of Robert Charles Akins, died at her 
home in Ovid Center, N Y., April 21, 1904. See 
page 92. 

Byron Wattles, Secretary. 



The sixth annual reunion of the Surdam 
family was held at the home of H. S. Akins, 
Speedsville, N. Y., August 16, 1905. The fol- 
lowing persons w^ere present: 

Henry S. Akins and his wife Alvira, Zelia Akins Ba- 
ker, Emily Akins Gore, Sara Akins, Matilda Freeman 
Gates, Harriet Freeman Shaw, Hubert Wattles and his 
wife Wei thy, William K. Boice and his wife Georgianna 
Wattles, Byron Wattles and his wife Cynthia, Charity 



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Johnson Bliss, Francis M. Surdam and his wife Rachel, 
Seth S. Surdam, his wife Lillie and son Charles Fran- 
cis, Seymour Hults and his wife Eliza Surdam, Robert 
C. Clark and his wife Jessie, David F. Clark, Francis A. 
Snow and his wife Anna Clark, Smith Wilcox and his 
wife Ann Fitch, John Davis and his wife Albertina Clark, 
S. Perry Tarbox and his wife Jane, Robert Charles Akins 
and his son Frank, Amos A. Johnson and his wife Orpha 
Tarbox, Warren A. Baker, his wife Etta and their chil- 
dren, Joseph, Walter and Mildred, Orlo A. Baker, his 
wife Lena and their children, Lena, Seth and Lewis, 
Frank C. Baker, Laura G. Prentice, Caroline M. Bliss, 
Anna R. Wheaton, Fanny L. Snow, Ransom J. Rich, his 
wife Anna and their children, Bessie and Francis, Hu- 
bert O. Rich and his wife Mary, Ross S. Whiting, his 
wife Purley and their children, Marlea and Laura. — 62. 

The morning was cold and rainy, but the 
cousins were not dismayed, for Hollanders learned 
long ago to shut the water out, so about the 
usual number were in attendance. The first to 
arrive were the four cousins from Pennsylvania, 
who were with us for the first time. 

We found a commodious tent pitched beside 
the house, having a wind-break, which made it 
very comfortable. The day soon brightened un- 
til it was fair. 

When the dinner hour for farmers arrived 
the tables were well laden with good things and 
we were invited to partake of them. Each ap- 
pointed himself a committee of one on the pure 
food question and proceeded to analyze a good 



190 REUNIONS 

supply. All were reported "the real thing " as 
labeled. 

After dinner we were called to order by the 
president, Francis A. Snow. The minutes of the 
last meeting were read and approved, with many 
items of interest furnished by the secretary, C. 
B. Surdam, who was unable to be present. The 
report of the treasurer, John Davis, was also ac- 
cepted. Ofi&cers for the ensuing year were elect- 
ed, as follows: 

President — F. M. Surdam. 
Secretary — C. E. Surdam. 
Treasurer — S. Hulls. 

It was decided to hold the next meeting at 
the home of Seymour Hults. 

The men enjoyed their "roll of comfort" 
while the women "gathered up the crumbs" 
and a general visit was enjoyed until time to go 
home. 

S. S. Surdam, Secretary pro tern. 



Aug. 


20, 


1904. 


Wilbur Baker. 


94 


Oct. 


13, 


( ( 


Frederick Woodhull Baker. 


93 


Feb. 


24. 


1905. 


Mabel Leona Rich. 


169 


June 


10, 


( ( 


Claud Shenk. 

MARRIAGES. 


167 


Oct. 


4, 


1904. 


Alvena M. Surdam and 
James Jennings, Jr. 


129 



REUNIONS 191 



Feb. 


8, 


1905. 


George Bert Akins and 
Grace Kverhart. 


93 




II, 


(( 


Lena Belle Tarbox and 
Albert D. Segar. 

DEATHS. 


74 


Sept. 


15, 


1904. 


Gardiner Fellows. 


165 


Dec. 


I, 


( < 


Addie Burns Johnson. 


137 




30. 


( < 


Catharine House Akins. 


88 


Jan. 


I, 


1905. 


Jessie Bliss Gallagher. 


107 




> 


( ( 


Francis G. Perry. 


69 



Further investigation during the past 3'ear, 
along the line of our ancestry, has failed to con- 
vince me that we are connected with the Sicy- 
dams, the descendants of Hendrick Rycken of 
Newtown, Long Island, who, about the year 17 10, 
took the name Suydam. 

The church records at Albany from 1630 to 
1680 have been destroyed, so there is nothing 
covering that period except the public documents 
and court records. In those I find: " 1658, June 
4. Action, Sheriff against JurrianTeunissen, gla- 
zier, for payment of excise." " 1660. Com- 
plaint against Jurrian Teunissen and Marcelis 
Jansen, tavern keepers, for entertaining persons 
at night after the ringing of the bell, — fined 70 
guilders." [$28.] " 1660, Sept. ist. Complaint 
againt Jurrian Teunissen for beating some of the 
magistrates at Mrs. Dyckman's house, and for 



192 REUNJONS 

abusing the worshipful Court. Defendant pleads 
gross intoxication and is fined 30 guilders " [12 
dollars.] " 1662. Minutes of the rejection of 
the prayer of Jurrian Teunissen to keep a tavern 
at the north side of the Esopus Kill." [Kings- 
ton] 

But he was only an a7icestral inide, and I 
think he became a " Reformed Dutchman," for 
in 1674 permission w^as granted him and two 
other men to purchase from the Indians a tract 
of land at Katskill, "provided they settle the 
land immediately." And in 1676 Nicholas Van 
Rensselaer sent a letter to Gov. Andros nominat- 
ing him to be a commissary of Rensselaerwick. 
He afterward appears in and about Albany as a 
real estate dealer of some prominence. 

With sincere regrets that I cannot meet with 
you this year and wdth kindest regards and best 
wishes, I remain very sincerely yours, 

C. E SuRDAM, Secretary. 



The seventh annual reunion of the Surdam 
family was held on Wednesday, August 15, 1906, 
at the home of Seymour Hults, Hunt's Corners, 
N. Y. There were sixtj^-one present, as follows: 

Descendants of Bliza Surdam Akins 4 

H. S. Akins and wife, Sara Akins, Frank Baker. 
Descendants of Jerusha Surdam Wattles 00 



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Descendants of Edward William Surdam i6 

Eliza Hults and her husband Seymour, F. M. 
Surdam and his wife Rachel, Charles E. Sur- 
dam, Seth S. Surdam and his wife lyillie, Elmer 
E. Hults, his wife Mabel and their children, Mu- 
rilla, Harold, Mary I,, and Robert S., Alvena M. 
Jennings, her husband James and their daugh- 
ter Frances Mary. 

Descendants of Letty Maria Surdam Johnson 21 

Jane Iv. Day, her son Curtis and her daughter 
Grace, Lee Johnson, his wife Augusta and their 
son Deville, Charity Johnson Bliss, her husband 
Samuel, their son Grant and daughters Caroline 
M. Bliss and Mrs. C. A. McAlpine, Watson J. 
Bliss, his wife and their children Walter and 
Wanda, M. Elizabeth Lovell, Asa O. Cook, Free- 
man Cook, his wife and their son Robert J. 

Descendants of Emily Surdam Freeman 8 

Harriet Freeman Shaw, Ross S. Whiting, his 
wife and their children, Marlea, Laura and Earl, 
Ethel Iv. Whiting. 

Descendants of Daniel Orville Surdam 5 

Frances M, Hill and her daughters Grace E. Hill 
and Mary M. Goodale, and grandchildren Fran- 
cis Roderick and Genevieve Lucile Goodale. 

Descendants of Sally Surdam Fitch 3 

John Davis and his wife Emily Albertina, Anna 
R. Wheaton. 

Descendants of Jane Surdam Perry 4 

Edwin Perry, his wife and their daughters, Mrs. 
John Williamson and Mrs. James Williamson. 

Total.. 61 

Forty-six direct descendants and fifteen members by 
marriage. 



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Officers elected: 

President — Seth S. Surdam. 
Secretary— C. B. Surdam. 
Treasurer — Seymour Hults. 

The day was perfect and passed all too 
quickly to give an opportunity to greet those who 
usually assemble year after year to inquire after 
the absent ones, and to become acquainted with 
the few who met with us for the first time. It 
will be of interest to those who read this report a 
hundred years hence to know that the senior 
member of the Surdam family, H. S. Akins, and 
his wife were the first to arrive, and that the}^ 
were brought by Frank Bliss, a nephew of Lu- 
cinda Wattles Bliss, in his automobile. That was 
the first appearance of such a machine at our re- 
unions; but it will not be the last, as they are 
rapidly overrunning the country; the number of 
licenses already issued in the state of New Jersey 
being more than thirty thousand. 

A very interesting greeting in poetry was 
received from Mrs. Huldah Howe of North Bing- 
ham, Pa., a daughter of Willis Tarbox and a 
great-granddaughter of Jane Surdam Perry. It 
was read, and has been copied in the secretary's 
book. 

I have not had time to do much investigating 
during the year, but have found that Ira Sur- 



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195 



dam, whose name was often mentioned when we 
were children, was a son of Peter, the eldest 
brother of our grandfather, Daniel, and that a 
son, Melville A., and several other descendants 
now live in Pennsylvania. 

I have also learned that the Hoosick Falls 
branch, which includes C. A. Surdam of Roches- 
ter, the Rev. C. A. Surdam of Pittston, Pa., and 
Rev. Dr. Winters of New York, belongs to our 

family. 

I also found while looking up the Hoosick 

Surdams that " Margaret Sirdam, mother of 
Samuel Sirdam, died in Salisbury, Conn., Oct. 
lo, 1750, in the seventy-ninth year of her age." 
She was our ancestral mother, Margaret Law- 
rence, wife of Teunis Pietersz, and was therefore 
born in 1671. 

BIRTHS. 

John William Mitchell. 109 

Frances Mary Jennings. 130 

Ethel C. Brink. 174 

Helen Marjorie Lovell. 142 

Alberta E. Welch 169 

George Earl Whiting. 149 

Robert Seymour Hults. 124 

Lora Louisa Freeman. 152 

MARRIAGE. 

Adaraga Perry and James 

Williamson. 71 



Sept. 16, 1905. 

22, 
Oct. 7, 

9, 

9, 
Dec. 29, 

Mar. 17, 1906. 

May 28, " 

Mar. 24, 1906. 



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DEATHS. 

Three deaths have occurred since our last 
meeting. 

On the 2ist of December, 1905, we lost one 
of the members of the oldest generation of which 
there are any now living, the third from Tunis 
Surdam and the fifth from Teunis Pietersz — By- 
ron Wattles, son of Lathrop Wattles and Jerusha 
Surdam. He was the youngest of the family — 
not quite fifty-nine years of age — but his health 
had not been good for several years. He was 
very much interested in our reunions and gene- 
rally attended them. In 1900 he w^as elected 
vice-president and in 1903 secretary. See p. iii. 

The second was that of Catharine R. Bowie, 
wife of Marcellus Bowie of Pisgah, Md., and 
only daughter of Martin Akins. The news of 
her death was received through her little daugh- 
ter Katie, twelve years of age. She said that her 
mother had pneumonia followed by hasty con- 
sumption. Her death occurred March 6, 1906. 
See page 95. 

Lydia Cornelia Clark died May 10, 1906, in 
the ninetieth year of her age. She was the last 
of her generation, which was the fourth of the 
Surdam family in America. See page 173. 

C. E. Surdam, Secretary. 



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The eighth annual reunion of the Surdam 
family was held on Wednesday, August 21, 1907, 
at the home of F. M. Surdam. 

The day was very pleasant. Early morning 
showers had laid the dust, which had been ver}' 
disagreeable, but unfortunately the rain made the 
roads too slippery for safe automobiling, so that 
Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Akins, who had planned to 
come as the previous \^ear, could not attend. 

Ira Surdam's sou Melville, from Pennsylva- 
nia, was present — the first representative of that 
family to attend a reunion. 

After a bountiful dinner the business meet- 
ing, in the absence of both president and secreta- 
ry, was called to order by F. M. Surdam, who 
proposed the name of William E. Prentice for 
chairman. The motion was carried unanimously. 
Mrs. E. E. Hults was asked to act as secretarj'. 
The secretary's report was read and listened to 
with interest. 

A letter from Ellsworth Lovell of Hillsdale, 
Mich., was greatly enjoyed, and the interest was 
enhanced by the remarks of Chairman Prentice, 
who had visited Mr. Lovell during the preceding 
summer. 

Mrs. Jane L. Surdam Day invited the cous- 
ins to meet with her for the reunion of 1908. 

The officers elected were: 



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President — John Davis. 
Secretary — C. E. Surd am. 
Treasurer — Curtis Day. 

Fifty-one were present: 

F. M. Surdam and wife, Seymour Hults and wife, 
Melville A. Surdam, Elmer E. Hults, wife and four chil- 
dren, Murilla, Harold, Robert and Mar}^ Eee Johnson 
and wife, A. D. Johnson, Mrs. Einnie Burgess and son 
Lee Augustine, Mrs. Frances Surdam Hill, Orville Hill, 
wife and children Ralph M. and Mary, Julian Hill Good- 
ale, Genevieve Eucile Goodale and Francis Roderick 
Goodale, Mrs. Matilda J. Freeman Gates, Mrs. Harriet 
F. Shaw, Mrs. Frances Freeman Cooper, Samuel S. Bliss 
and wife, Grant W. Bliss, Caroline M. Bliss, Henry 
Bradt and wife and Eva M. Bradt, Mrs. Jane E. Day, 
Curtis Day and Grace A. Day, W. E. Prentice and wife, 
William K. Boice, Mrs. Julia Watros and Kenneth Wat- 
ros, Frank G. Higgins and wife, R. J. Rich and wife and 
Bessie, Francis O. and Kitty Rich, John Davis and wife. 

There were reported to the secretary during 
the year four births, four marriages and three 
deaths. 

BIRTHS. 

Aug. 24, 1906. Henry Surdam Baker. 93 

Feb. 2, 1907. Samuel Marion Tarbox. 73 

Mar. 2, " David Ives Cooper. 151 

June I, " Albert Merle Rich. 169 

MARRIAGES. 

Aug. 22, 1906. Fred G. Whiting and Syl- 
via A. Holmes. i so 



REUNIONS 199 

Jan. 23, 1907. Henr}^ Clark Gates and 

Anne F. Williams. 146 

Jan. 30, " Lamont C. Snow and 

Frances Whittaker. 172 

Mar. 10, " Gertrude Ay ers and John 

Watson. 166 

DEATHS. 

The first death during the year was that of 
Charles Francis Surdam, only son of Seth S. and 
Lillie J. Surdam of Morristown, N. J. See p. 130. 

The second was that of James William, the 
second son of Mary J. Wattles and James W. 
Reed of Glen Ridge, N. J., and grandson of 
Chauncey L. Wattles. He was a bright, promis- 
ing boy and only fourteen years of age (see page 
102). 

The third was that of Georgianna Boice, who 
was a regular attendant at our reunions when her 
health permitted her to be present. She was one 
of the forty-one grandchildren of Daniel and Let- 
ty Surdam. Her death occurred May 3, 1907. 
See page 109. 

Regretting my inability to be present and 
with love and best wishes I remain, 
Your cousin, 

C. K. Surdam, Secretary. 



200 REUNIONS 

The ninth annual reunion of the Surdara 
family was held on Wednesday, August 19, 1908, 
at the home of Mrs. Jane L. Johnson Day, and 
surely at no place has a more cordial welcome 
been extended, even though "mine host" was 
limping painfully and Miss Grace wore her left 
arm in a sling. 

The cool breezes of the morning made trav- 
eling delightful, although some may be able to 
tell future generations the exact date of the build- 
ing of the state road from Center I^isle to Man- 
ningville. 

The descendants of Daniel Surdam and his 
sisters Jane and Sarah were pleased to greet two 
other of the descendants of Peter Surdam in the 
persons of Thomas Surdam of Sunderlin, Pa., 
and his sister, Mrs. Lizzie Surdam Worden, of 
Ulysses, Pa. 

Tables were spread in the pleasant dining- 
room, and as the generous supply of good things 
made appearance and disappeared it seemed a 
general opinion that all the Surdams were fam- 
ously good cooks. As the very climax of the 
meal, fruit-cake and candy, which had been pre- 
pared by loving cousins at Hillsdale, Mich., were 
passed, a greeting from Mary Elizabeth Lovell 
to the friends was read. It was learned a bit 
later that Mrs. Ellsworth Eovell had made the 



REUNIONS 201 

cake and Miss Mary E. Lovell the candy. Both 
were most delicious, and while partaking of them 
many were heard to express ^reat pleasure at the 
thoughtfulness which prompted the deed. 

Directly after the dinner the business meet- 
ing was called to order by President John Davis, 
who called for the reading of the secretary's re- 
port. In the absence of Mr. Surdam Mrs. K. E. 
Hults was requested to act as secretary. 

The secretary's annual report was read, also 
a letter from Mrs. Frances Freeman Cooper. The 
interest manifested in these reports was intense, 
and at the close of the reading a motion was 
unanimously carried that a vote of thanks be ten- 
dered to C. E. Surdam for his painstaking efforts 
and for the souvenirs which he has furnished 
each year. 

Cousin Matilda F. Gates was granted the 
privilege of the floor, and expressed the opinion 
that it would be well to have a surplus in the 
treasury, so that when our secretary should pub- 
lish his genealogical pamphlets the reunions 
might help in a degree in the expense. The treas- 
urer's report was read and approved. 

Officers elected: 

President — John Davis. 
Secretary — C. B. Surdam. 
Treasurer — Ransom J. Rich. 



202 REUNIONS 

Those present were: 

John Davis and wife, George Clark, Michigan, Da- 
vid Clark, Ransom J. Rich and wife, Bessie Rich, Fran- 
cis O. Rich, Kitty M. Rich, Lee Johnson and wife, A. 
Deville Johnson, Mrs. C. A. Burgess, Cleveland, Ohio, 
Thomas J. Surdam, Sunderlin, Penn., Asa O. Cook and 
wife. Grant W. Bliss, Miss Caroline M. Bliss, Mrs. Liz- 
zie Surdam Worden, Ulysses, Penn., Henry Bradt and 
wife, Henry Baker, Mrs. Frances Surdam Hill, Seymour 
Hults, Mrs. Eliza Surdam Hults, Mrs. Matilda J. Free- 
man Gates, Canton, Penn., Mrs. Harriet E. F. Shaw, W. 
J. Bliss and wife, Walter Bliss, F. M. Surdam and wife, 
Mrs. E. E. Hults, Mary L. Hults, Robert S. Hults, W. 
E. Prentice and wife, Mrs. Eliza Bliss, Mrs. Jane L. 
Day, Grace A. Day, Curtis Day, Mrs.Wm. E. Hunt. — 43. 

Mrs. E. E. Hults, Secretary pro tern. 
Genealogical report for the year: 

BIRTHS. 

Janet Surdam Jennings. 130 

Edith Elizabeth Snow. 172 

Minerva Persis Surdam. 64 

Marion Arleigh Williamson. 7 1 

Clifford Ayers Watson. 166 

Helen Maria Akins. 93 

Robert Stebbins Whiting. 150 

Emily Frances Gates. 147 

[This birth makes cousin Matilda Gates, at the 
age of seventy, eligible to membership in 
the " Society of Grandmothers."] 

May 23, 1908. Elizabeth Brink. 175 



Sept. 


21, 


1907. 


Oct. 


4, 






31, 




Nov. 


26, 




Dec. 


9. 




Dec. 


28, 




Feb. 


15, 


1908. 


Apr. 


22, 


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REUNIONS 203 



June 


29, 1908. 


Frances H. Cooper. 


151 


July 


8, " 


Cornelia Bernice Welch. 

MARRIAGES. 


169 


Nov. 


, 1907. 


Clarence Hubert Fitch and 








Jennie Wynne. 


170 


July 


12, 1908. 


Beth Iraogene Freeman 








and Walter S. Wood. 


152 



DEATHS, 

The first death to occur after the last reun- 
ion was that of Frank Baker Akins, younger son 
of Mary Baker and Robert Charles Akins of 
Ovid Center, N. Y, He died September 7, 1907, 
aged eighteen years. He was a grandson of Zelia 
Akins Baker. See page 92. 

The second was that of Seth S. Surdam of 
Morristown, N. J., the youngest surviving grand- 
child of Daniel and Letty Surdam. The tragic 
death of his only son, Charles Francis, which oc- 
curred October 13, 1906, was a stunning blow 
from which he did not recover. Broken-hearted 
and not as robust as he appeared to be, he^was an 
easy prey for disease, and during February, March 
and April following he was very ill from a compli- 
cation of diseases. During the summer he was 
fairly well, but he had a second attack on the 
26th of September, and after intense suffering he 
passed away on the i6th of October, just a year 
from the day that Charles' remains were taken 



204 REUNIONS 

to Candor. In his death his family and those near 
to him have suffered a great loss. In his home 
he was a model husband and father; as a brother 
he was without fault; to the church and his social 
obligations he was always faithful, and in busi- 
ness he was as honest, honorable and conscien- 
tious as any man I ever knew. See page 128. 

Henry H. Robison, husband of Frances Lou- 
ise Clark, who is a great-granddaughter of Sarah 
Surdam Fitch, died at his home in Slaterville 
Springs May i, 1908. See page 162. 

On the fifth of June, 1908, at her home in 
Caroline, Elizabeth S. Rich, after a long illness. 
She was the first child born to John and Maria 
Fitch, and a granddaughter of Sarah Surdam 
Fitch (see page 168). She was sixty-two years 
of age and had been married forty-four years. 
Her illness was dropsy and heart disease. For 
the last three years she had been confined to her 
home, and for the last few weeks was unable to 
lie dow'U. The family feel their loss very deeply 
as she was a devoted wdfe and mother. The 
daughter Kitty, who was with her all of the time, 
deserves great credit for her care and devotion, 
although they all did what they could. Her 
casket was covered with flowers and there were 
many others. She will be mourned by all who 
knew her. 



REUNIONS 205 

Samuel S. Bliss, husband of Charity John- 
son Bliss, died in Marathon, N. Y., June 26, 
1908, after an illness of about five days. He was 
born in Lapeer February 15, 1833, and therefore 
was seventy-five years of age. A man of excel- 
lent character and highly respected in the com- 
munity in which he lived. See page 140. 

HISTORICAI, SUMMARY. 

The history of the Surdam family is now 
practically completed — at least as far as it seems 
advisable to carry the investigation, and the es- 
sential facts are clearly established. All Sardams, 
Surdams and Van Surdams are descendants of 
Lawrence and Samuel, sons of Teunis Pietersz. 
Samuel lived at Great Barrington, Mass., and 
Salisbury, Conn., and died at the latter place in 
1772, leaving three sons and two daughters. 
Lawrence died at Great Barrington in 1731 and 
left a widow, Klenor, and three sons, Peter, An- 
drew and Tunis. Tunis, our ancestor, lived and 
died (1808) at Salisbury, Conn. Andrew also 
lived at Salisbury, and died in 1809, leaving chil- 
dren. The descendants of Samuel and Andrew 
have generally spelled the name Sardam. Peter 
and his wife, four sons and three daughters re- 
moved from Salisbury to Hoosick, N. Y., where 
he died in 1801. Peter's descendants are scat- 
tered through New York state, but are mostly in 



206 REUNIONS 

the vicinity of Hoosick Falls. Several of that 
branch have spelled the name Van Surdam. 

The descendants of our progenitor, Tunis 
Surdam, are found in Massachusetts, Connecti- 
cut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ma- 
ryland, Mississippi, Texas, Michigan, Iowa, Ne- 
braska, South Dakota, Utah, Oregon, and Al- 
berta Province, Canada. 

Peler, John, Christina and Hannah remained 
in Connecticut and Massachusetts. John did not 
marry. Christina is believed to have married a 
Mr. Russell. Hannah married Benjamin Harri- 
son. Peter had twelve children, among whom 
was Ira, who married Persis Keyes and removed 
to Pennsylvania. They had nine children and 
several grandchildren, who mostly reside in Penn- 
sylvania and western New York. The descend- 
ants of Daniel have all been found, and nearly 
all of the Perrys and Fitches. 
With kind regards. 

Your cousin, C. E. Surdam. 



The tenth annual reunion of the Surdam 
family was held on Wednesday, August i8, 1909, 
at the home of Mr. and Mrs, John Davis, at Car- 
oline Center. 

Although th^e weather was decidedly moist 
and the roads were mudd}^ every one was in a 



REUNIONS 207 

very cheerful frame of mind because the much- 
needed rain had come. The number present 
proved that Hollanders and their descendants are 
not afraid of water. 

luvside the house there was no hint of the 
gloom prevailing outside, for our welcome was 
genial and bright. The rooms were tastefully 
decorated with ferns and flowers, while American 
flags adorned the piazza. 

The dinner was served in the pleasant dining 
room and, as is always the case, the supply of 
substantial and "goodies" was very bountiful. 

The business meeting was called to order by 
the president, Mr. Davis, who called for the read- 
ing of the secretary's report. In the absence of 
Mr. Surdam, Mrs. James Jennings, Jr., acted as 
secretary. After the annual report was read the 
treasurer's report was read and approved. A let- 
ter from Mrs. Frances Freeman Cooper, regret- 
ting her inability to be present, was read, after 
which the following officers were elected: 

President— Mrs. Matilda J. F. Gates. 
Secretary — C. E. Surdam. 
Treasurer — Ransom J. Rich. 

Motions were made and carried that a collec- 
tion be taken to help defray the expense of mail- 
ing the genealogical records, and that the date 
for reunions be changed from the third to the 



208 REUNIONS 

first Wednesday in August; also that a vote of 
thanks be extended to Mr. and Mrs. Davis for 
their hospitality. 

Those present were: 

John Davis and wife, Francis M. Surdam and wife, 
John H. Brink and wife, and Paul D., Ruth A., Ethel 
and Elizabeth Brink, Lamont C. Snow and wife and 
Edith E. Snow, Alvena M. Jennings and daughters Fran- 
ces May and Janet Surdam Jennings, David F. Clark, \V. 
E. Prentice and wife, Mrs. Ross S. Whiting and daugh- 
ter Laura, William K. Boice, Sara J. Akins, William G. 
Watros, Robert C. Clark and wife, Mrs. Harriet Freeman 
Shaw, Matilda J. Freeman Gates, Francis A. Snow and 
wife, Henry Baker, Ransom J. Rich, his wife Anna and 
their children Bessie R. and Francis O., Kittie M. Rich, 
Albert O. Rich, Lewis G. Rich and wife and Hilma G. 
and Elizabeth Rich, ClifTord Rich, Sabra E. Clark, Fan- 
ny L. Snow, Mrs. F, L. Robison, Mattie A. Robison, R. 
E. Brink, L. A. Patch and wife, Marcia A. Davis, Fanny 
M. Little, Mrs. H. M. Pierce.— 52. 

GENEALOGICAL REPORT. 
BIRTHS. 

Aug. 21, 1908. Charles Leslie Freeman. 152 

22, " Ruth Whiting. 150 

Dec. 29, " Herbert Heath Benjamin. 164 

Jan. 6, 1909. Alice Josephine Fitch. 170 

Mar. 12, " Ellen Ruth Fitch. 

Da. of Clarence H. Fitch and Jennie Wynne. 170 

Apr 20, 1909. Vivian Althea Williamson. 

Da. of Adaraga Perry and James Williamson. Jl 



REUNIONS 209 

Aug. I, 1909. Charles Edward Hults. 

Son of Elmer E. and Mabel Hults. 1 24 
MARRIAGES. 

Dec. 29, 1908. Arthur Taft Snow and 

Edith Whittaker. 172 

June 9, 1909. Lulu Marguerite Freeman 151 

and Edgar W. , son of Pe- 
ter and Margarete Lin- 
smith of Toledo, Ohio. 

DEATHS. 

Feb. 22, 1909. George B. Gore. 90 

Step-son of Emily Akins Gore. 
Apr. 30, " Carleton Wattles. 112 

Only son of Cynthia Fitch Wattles. 

The " Genealogy of the Surdam Family " is 
being printed and will be ready for distribution 
in a few weeks. It is my present intention to 
send a copy to each family and not make a charge 
for it, but to allow those who are willing to pay 
the cost of the book or less to do so, the amount 
so paid to go toward a permanent fund, the inter- 
est on which will be sufficient to pay the secreta- 
ry for printing and mailing the annual notices 
and minutes of the reunions. 

I very much regret that I again am unable 
to meet with you. 

With kindest regards to all I remain 
Yours very truly, 

C. E. Surdam, Secretary. 



ERRORS AND DELAYED INFORMATION 



Page 60. Frumente Wiuters should be Fru- 
menti. 

Page 71. Florence Perry and John Will- 
iamson have one son, Marion Arleigh, born No- 
vember 26, 1907. Adaraga Perry was married 
March 24, 1906, to James Williamson, and they 
have one daughter, Vivian Althea, born April 
20, 1909. 

Page 72. M. G. Tarbox, eldest son of S. 
Perry Tarbox, was married October 2, 1905, to 
Mary 1'arbox of Roaring Branch, Penn. 

Page 73. Grant and Maud Tarbox have two 
children, Lillian, born February 28, 1898, and 
Samuel M., born February 2, 1907. 

Page 74. Anna, daughter of George Tar- 
box, was born May 31, 1889, and Lena Belle Au- 
gust 28, 1884. Anna was married April i, 1908, 
to Fred W. Segar, and they have one son, born 
June 16, 1909. 

Page 92. Frank Baker Akins, son of Mary 

210 



ERRORS, ETC. 211 

Baker and Robert Charles Akius, died September 
7, 1907. 

Page 141. Watson J. Bliss and wife have 
two children, Wanda A., born December 17, 1899, 
and Walter H., born May 3, 1904. 

Page 168. Mrs. Maria Fitch died March 
23, i860, not in 1856. 

Page 172. Sabra Electra should be Sabra 
Electa. 

Page ^^. Mary Lucette (not Lisetta) Akius 
married George P. Curran of Ithaca, and they 
had one son, Harry L. G. Curran. Mr. Curran 
died July 18, 1904, and the widow married, Aug. 
28, 1906, for a second husband, William F. Kent, 
who died March 7, 1909. 

Page 90. Crawford Co. should be Bradford 
Co. 

Pages 100, 226. Charles Higgins was born 
Nov. 30, 1825, and he and Eliza Jane Wattles 
were married Jan. 11, 1848. 

Page 121. Richard Lee Surdam was born 
Aug. 24, 1839. 

Page 124. Rachel Beattie was born Oct. 14, 
1842. 

Page 166. Adoniram Fitch and Diautha 
Colby were married Nov. 10, 1848. 



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